The gender representation in media has been intensely discoursed in recent years. However, people usually discuss and analyze the gender representation of women in media, but ignore the media portrait of men and masculinity. For my first hyperessay, I want to explore more about the representation of men and masculinity in media in an attempt to find how that influences people's perspective of masculinity. I will talk about how media defines masculinity and show some common stereotypes of men in media. Also, there are some specialized areas in media that contributes to the representation of men and masculinity. They will be addressed respectively in section "masculinity and advertising", "masculinity and magazines", and "masculinity and films". Moreover, male authority in media news coverage and masculinity in sports media are also two special cases that will be discussed in my hyperessay.