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Mar 8, 2024 · In Figure 2, we look at the relationship between the proportion of women working in journalism and the percentage of women in top editorial positions, relying on data from Worlds of Journalism (Hanitzsch et al. 2019). As in previous years, we find some evidence of a positive correlation between the percentage of women working in journalism and the percentage of women in top editorial positions ...
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In this Reuters Institute factsheet we analyse the gender breakdown of top editors in a strategic sample of 240 major online and offline news outlets in 12 different markets across five continents. Looking at a sample of ten top online news outlets and ten top offline news outlets in each of these 12 markets, we find: 1. Only 21% of the 179 top edi...
The ‘who’ in ‘who decides what is news?’ matters both practically and symbolically. The people who occupy top editorial positions in news media wield power and influence and are among those who come to represent both their specific organisation and the industry as a whole. They shape what news and newsrooms look like (Griffin 2014) and play a role ...
Building on and extending our work from past years (Andı et al. 2020; Robertson et al. 2021), we examine a strategic sample of 12 markets with varying levels of gender equality, as measured by the UN Gender Inequality Index. We include the same 12 markets we covered in 2021, ten of which we also covered in 2020. To get an overview of global differe...
Based on this dataset, we find that 21% of the 179 top editors across the 240 brands covered are women. On average, this is substantially below the 40% of journalists in the 12 markets who are women. There has been significant change in many of the countries covered, but the top-line figure is one percentage point below last year’s. Looking exclusi...
In Figure 2, we look at the relationship between the proportion of women working in journalism and the percentage of women in top editorial positions, relying on data from Worlds of Journalism (Hanitzsch et al. 2019).1As in previous years, we find a (weak) positive correlation. As we have noted before, correlation does not necessarily entail causat...
If we look at the percentage of women in top editorial positions in the context of data on gender inequality in society more broadly, relying on data from the UN Gender Inequality Index (2020), as shown in Figure 3, we find no clear interpretable pattern across 11 markets (Hong Kong is not included in the UN Gender Inequality Index).
The continued absence of a positive correlation suggests dynamics internal to journalism and the news media influence both career paths and the gender composition of top editorial ranks, above and beyond wider structural factors. This has also been suggested by many country-specific studies, such as the UK’s Women in Journalism report, The Gender N...
In this Reuters Institute factsheet, we have analysed the gender breakdown of top editors at a strategic sample of 240 major online and offline news outlets in 12 different markets across five continents. We have found that the clear majority of top editors across the sample are men. Only one country has an equal number of female and male top edito...
1 The data from Worlds of Journalism (Hanitzsch et al. 2019) used in this analysis were collected from 2012–2016.
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Maria Cederschiöld (1856–1935), the first woman journalist in Sweden to be chief editor of a newspaper's foreign department. Olena Chekan (1946–2013), did political interviews. Frona Eunice Wait Colburn (1859–1946), one of only two female journalists in San Francisco in 1887, associate editor of the Overland Monthly.
Jul 15, 2021 · According to the just released Global Media Monitoring Project (), women made up 40% of reporters and 25% of news sources across print, TV, radio, internet news and Twitter.This was a record ...
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Mar 2, 2021 · Women Do News hosted its first in-person edit-a-thon at the Luminary in New York City on Nov. 16, 2019. (Courtesy Women Do News)
Apr 8, 2024 · However, while women in Czech journalism have almost reached parity with men, representing 45% of all journalists (Volek & Urbániková, 2017), only 2 of the 28 major Czech news outlets (7%) have a female editor-in-chief. 1 How do female journalists who are now in decision-making positions and have the power to change organizational culture think about gender? How do they perceive the barriers ...
