During our first year of operation, we spent time looking at representations of sex and gender in Internet news through our own studies and as well as those by others. To review what we’ve accomplished in that time and what it says about the state of women in online journalism, we’ve pulled together a roundup of our stats and findings. Continue reading
What article subjects have the lowest representation of female sources and authors? Well, that’s what we’ve looked at in the data from our year-long Gender Check monitoring study. Continue reading
Women bylined 32.2 percent of all articles monitored in a year-long study of eight news websites. Continue reading
A year ago, we asked: What percentage of the most talked about articles on the web feature or are written by women? What we found as we sought to answer this question was not encouraging. Continue reading
The articles from month 12 of our Gender Check monitoring project contained 23 female sources and 71 male sources, making women as 24.4 percent of human sources whose gender could be identified. Continue reading
A low article count in December’s monitoring of the New Media Index results in few female bylines and sources. December’s monitoring marked a full year of monitoring the top articles of the web based on links provided in the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s weekly New Media Index roundups. Continue reading
