*Gender Checks are quick examinations of gender representation in individual news articles for the purpose of discovering trends over time. Click here to read more.
Website: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (stltoday.com)
On Stltoday.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 5:30 p.m. (MST) March 24, was titled “Tiny Missouri town is perfectly centered.” Its subject was a town being names the U.S.’s new population center.
Here is its gender breakdown:
–Author: Male
–Human sources (listed in order mentioned):
1. Male, chairman of city’s board
2. Male, director of the Census Bureau
Website: St. Louis Beacon
On the St. Louis Beacon, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 5:30 p.m. (MST) March 24, was titled “Federal regulators say Midwest BankCentre’s fair lending record ‘needs to improve.’” Its subject was was the release of a fair lending performance review report that showed that a bank “needs to improve.”
Here is its gender breakdown:
–Author: Female
–Human sources (listed in order mentioned):
1. Male, chairman of the bank
2. Female, assistant director of equal housing opportunity council
Notes/analysis: The article quotes mainly from the report.
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