Sergio Maruenda is Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of English and German Studies at Universitat de València, Spain. He is also a member of IULMA and the GENTEXT research group. He specializes in the critical analysis of gender-based violence discourses in news media. Laura Mercé is a part-time Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain, and a member of IULMA. She serves as a member of GENTEXT at Universitat de València. Her research is focused on the link between discourse and gender-based violence.Elena Castellano-Ortolà is Associate Lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies at Universitat de València, Spain. She is also a IULMA and a GENTEXT member. Her main research interest lies in the intersection between gender and translation.

• Table of content - Acknowledgements - Discourse, gender, and violence in news and social media texts: Setting the scene - Building a large, annotated corpus of newspaper articles: How to analyse violence against women in the press - The victim, the "wolf pack" and the law: Social actors in Spanish press reports of gang rape - Gendered violence in Polish media reporting on crisis migration: A comparative corpus-assisted discourse study - How DR journalists use News Values when reporting on violence against women: The case of Swedish journalist Kim Wall - The construction of victim accountability in the discourse of female survivors of sexual violence (Insights from online blogging) - Discovered and disclosed: Examining discourses about online grooming by child-victims and their caregivers -Mediatic cases on hate speech: Amber Heard vs. Johnny Depp on Twitter - The representation of social actors in male survivors digitally-recounted experiences of sexual violence - Notes on contributors