*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 8:25 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Dec. 8, was titled “Pujols to sign with Angels.” Its subject was the Cardinals lose their offensive centerpiece to the Los Angeles Angels.
Here is its gender breakdown:
–Author: Male
–Human sources (listed in order mentioned):
- Unknown, “familiar with the bid”
- Male, chief executive, and male, general manager
Notes/analysis: Re: #2: Both men are cited as having “alternated describing their posture as ‘hopeful’ of retaining Pujols.”
Website: St. Louis Beacon
On the St. Louis Beacon, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:25 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Dec. 8, was titled “Health system reform moves forward despite controversy and legal challenge.” Its subject was health care reform.
Here is its gender breakdown:
–Author: Male
–Human sources (listed in order mentioned):
- Female, acting administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Female, nurse practitioner and professor of nursing
- Female, senior vice president at SSM Health Care
- Male, regional vice president at SSM Health Care-St. Louis
- Female, executive director of area business health coalition
- Male, spokesperson for the state hospital association
- Female, spokesperson for Missouri Health Connection
- Female, project director of the center for health policy at university
Notes/analysis: The article contains three mugshots – two of female sources and one of a male source.
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