Mainstream newsroom routines have faced significant shifts in the last decades. Regardless of its nature, these changes can be seen from a gender perspective and framed within neoliberalism, seen as a structural force affecting people’s lives and an ideology of governance that shapes subjectivities. In this paper, we aim to discuss how neoliberalism influenced the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on newsrooms and journalists’ working conditions from a gender lens. For this purpose, thirty semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted between October and December 2021 with Portuguese female and male junior and senior journalists of different levels of hierarchy working in mainstream media. Their perceptions of the pandemic impact on news production show the intersections of sexism and neoliberalism in the newsroom settings. Journalists accept as part of the job the long working hours and the personal cost of health protection material and essential equipment to work from home while normalising the work-home conflict as a private woman’s matter. These findings are discussed as reflecting how neoliberal logic has made the impacts of the pandemic heavier, especially for women.

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过度、灵活且（仍然）被视为性别中立：Covid-19 大流行期间记者对其工作的看法

过去几十年来，主流新闻编辑室的惯例面临着重大转变。无论其性质如何，这些变化都可以从性别角度来看待，并在新自由主义的框架内进行，被视为影响人们生活的结构性力量和塑造主体性的治理意识形态。在本文中，我们旨在从性别角度讨论新自由主义如何影响 Covid-19 大流行对新闻编辑室和记者工作条件的影响。为此，我们在 2021 年 10 月至 12 月期间对在主流媒体工作的不同级别的葡萄牙女性和男性初级和高级记者进行了 30 次半结构化深度访谈。他们对大流行对新闻制作影响的看法显示了新闻编辑室环境中性别歧视和新自由主义的交叉点。记者们接受在家工作的长时间工作以及健康防护材料和基本设备的个人费用，将其视为工作的一部分，同时将工作与家庭的冲突正常化为女性的私事。这些发现被讨论为反映了新自由主义逻辑如何加剧了这一流行病的影响，特别是对女性的影响。