*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 8 a.m. (PST) Thursday, July 14, was titled “Federal agents seize 2,300 pounds of pot from truck near Pacific.” Its subject was marijuana in a secret compartment of a tractor trailer parked on the side of the interstate.
Here is its gender breakdown:
–Author: Female
–Human sources (listed in order mentioned):
- Male, spokesman with U.S. Immigration and Customs agency
Notes/analysis: This was a developing story.
Website: St. Louis Beacon
On the St. Louis Beacon, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8 a.m. (PST) Thursday, July 14, was titled “Crack cocaine offenders may get early release; neighborhoods hope to avoid reentry problems.” Its subject was a plan to ease sentences of some inmates with crack cocaine sentences.
Here is its gender breakdown:
–Author: Male
–Human sources (listed in order mentioned):
- Male, professor
- Female, district judge
- Male, chief probation officer
- Female, associate professor
- Male, resident
- Male, alderman
- Female, resident
- Male, federal parole officer
Notes/analysis: The article also contains several of mug shots of sources — two of women and one of a man.
The Gender Report 