To be annoyed by this part of the the wording of news reports about the croc incident

[SooPanda]

(Not about the incident itself. My heart goes out to the poor child and his family, and I don’t want to discuss the details of the incident itself because there are lots of threads on that already.)

AIBU??! Every news report I’ve read says that “the wife of the zoo owner” jumped in to save the boy.

Is she not also the zoo owner then??

AIBU to be annoyed that this heroic woman is being referred to by her marriage to a man and not her own credentials?

Yes, it's the fact that she's a woman.
It's a relatively recent development that eg. a woman will be referred to as a 'farmer' in her own right.
They could get round it though: one of the owners, "Jane', jumped in... Etc.

In the aftermath of an incident various reporters will have gathered information about the farm, the zoo etc. one local whose known her husband all his life will describe her ax the zoo owners wife,another friend might describe her as the owner of the zoo and someone else sees her as a colleague. I doubt any reporter rushing to meet a deadline started enquiring with the land registry or local solicitors on the legal position.