Women were 26 percent of human sources referenced in lead articles monitored in a year-long study of eight online news sites. 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
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
Catching up from October and November, our monitoring saw slight gains in the percentage of female sources and bylines in the News Media Index after all-time lows in September and August. Continue reading
The 11th month of our Gender Check monitoring project brought our highest percentage of female sources in a given month to date, with women as 34.7 percent of sources. Only one month to go until we hit the year mark in this study. Continue reading
During the tenth month of our Gender Check monitoring project, women made up 25.5 percent of sources and 29 percent of authors of one gender or the other. This marked a higher showing of female authors than the previous month, which resulted in our all-time low in our study thus far at 25 percent. Continue reading
