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
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
Women comprised 27 percent of sources and 25 percent of bylines in the ninth month of our Gender Check monitoring project. This marked the lowest percentage of female bylines to date in this study. Continue reading
Women made up nearly 25 percent of sources and 44.8 percent of authors in our eighth month of our Gender Check monitoring project. That reflected a rise in women authors over last month, when women had 35 percent of bylines. Continue reading
A dismal 10 percent of authors and 14.1 percent of sources were female in August’s look at the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index. This followed some changes in the NMI’s methodology starting Aug. 1. Continue reading
This week we’re discussing: What are some ways to increase the percentage of women included as news sources and the number of female reporters in the newsroom and with lead bylines? Continue reading
