In our seventh month of Gender Checks, women show up as 24.6 percent of sources and 35 percent of authors of one gender or the other. Continue reading
In July, the articles in the New Media Index showed parity in bylines but women represented only 15 percent of sources. Continue reading
On Jan. 18, 2011, we began a project to monitor U.S. news websites as part of an effort to look at gender representations in online news. Here’s what we found at the six-month mark. Continue reading
In month six, women made up more than 40 percent of bylines and roughly 27 percent of sources in the articles monitored through our weekly Gender Checks. Continue reading
The percentage of women authors and sources was higher in June’s monitoring of articles from the New Media Index, after May’s hit new lows. Continue reading
A sample of the lead articles from 40 national online news outlets finds women as 22 percent of sources and 34.3 percent of authors. However, as we dig a little deeper, further discrepancies turn up in the sourcing of articles by men versus those by women and overall when females are present among the sites’ principal staff. Continue reading
