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Mar 2, 2020 · The data suggests that when women are present in the news they appear primarily as sources based on their personal experience or as popular opinion providers and eyewitnesses to events. When you consider subject matter experts as sources, as of 2015, women represent just 19% and this proportion has remained relatively unchanged across 10 years of media monitoring.
Mar 8, 2024 · 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 GII (2021), shown in Figure 3, we find no correlation across 11 markets (Hong Kong is not included in the UN GII). 3 This suggests that there are dynamics at play here that are specific to journalism and the news media, and which ...
- Introduction ↑
- Key Findings
- Why It Matters
- News Usage and News Interest
- Social Media Use and Community Building Around News
- Trust and Attitudes to Misinformation by Gender
- Women and News in The 'Digital News Report 2020' ↑
- 'Digital News Report 2020'
- Interest in News
- Sources of News
In March 2020, as COVID-19 spread around the world and political leaders began to realise that an immediate response to the pandemic would involve personal sacrifices and public action, politicians and their directors of public health policies took to stadiums, lecterns, and cameras to speak about the need to stay home, shut schools and nurseries, ...
Men are more likely than women to say that they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ interested in political news across all markets.Women are more likely than men to express high levels of interest in news about health and education.Women are more likely than men to report that they use TV news programmes or bulletins.Facebook is still an important source of news for both men and women, but YouTube and Twitter are more popular with men.First, women are citizens and access to accurate, timely news is necessary for democratic participation. It is also important as a channel for information, to give people information about regulations, services, rights, and protections that affect them directly. There are many correlations between news and participation in political life. As Christ...
Men and women consume news differently, at different times of day and in different ways. The traditional print model revolves around the idea of a man reading the paper at the breakfast table, with his wife preparing breakfast, possibly with the radio or television in the background. Traces of these habits still remain in some countries, and many e...
Men and women experience social media very differently. Part of this is behavioural. A study by Facebook3of users in the United States shows that women on their platform tend to share more personal issues (e.g. family matters, relationships), whereas men discuss more abstract topics (e.g. politics). But this is only a very small part of the story. ...
Trust in news is a multi-faceted concept and a quick glance at our data shows that women and men are almost equally likely to trust or distrust news in most of the countries we analyse. But it is worth looking at patterns in how people share news, and how much they trust the news they receive through social media, through private messaging apps fro...
In this chapter, we carry out a descriptive analysis using the Digital News Report 2020(Newman et al. 2020) survey data collected in 2020 to identify key gender differences and similarities in news and media use in 11 markets: Kenya, South Africa, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and United States. So...
The Digital News Report survey is carried out to understand how news is being consumed in 40 markets. The survey is commissioned by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and carried out by YouGov. The 2020 report investigates the impact of coronavirus on news consumption as well as other topics such as trust and misinformation, local ne...
News consumption may be influenced by a variety of factors, including interest in the news. Individuals may be interested in different types of news, for example, ‘hard or soft news’, and thus may consume news that appeals to such interests. How interested are women in news? To answer, we analyse the gender breakdown of responses to the following q...
When asked about their primary source of news, in most markets, women are more likely than men to report that they use TV news programmes or bulletins, but in a handful of markets there are no clear gender differences (Figure 4). None of the 11 markets covered have a significantly larger number of men relying on TV news.
Jun 6, 2019 · Around the world, women are far less likely than men to be seen in the media.As subjects of stories, women only appear in a quarter of television, radio, and print news. In a 2015 report, women ...
Jul 15, 2021 · Women are still more likely to present and report the news than appear in it. Women are more visible in the world's news than ever before—but they're still far from achieving parity with men ...
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Mar 8, 2021 · Byerly, C. M., McGraw, K. A. 2020. ‘Axes of Power: Examining Women’s Access to Leadership Positions in the News Media’, in M. Djerf-Pierre and M. Edström (eds), Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe: A Cross-National Study of the Qualities, Causes, and Consequences of Gender Equality in and through the News Media ...
Jul 15, 2021 · Women are more visible in the world’s news than ever before — but they’re still far from achieving parity with men. According to the just released Global Media Monitoring Project (), women ...
