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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. 15, was titled “Lake Saint Louis man killed when logging equipment falls from truck.” Its subject was a man who was fatally injured when logging equipment fell from a truck directly into his path and his car hit it head on.
Here is its gender breakdown:
–Author: Female
–Human sources (listed in order mentioned):
- Male, police master sgt.
- Female, chief operating officer for the work place of the deceased
Notes/analysis:
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. 15, was titled “‘Farm dust’ debate highlights wider battle over regulations.” Its subject was a Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act.
Here is its gender breakdown:
–Author: Male
–Human sources (listed in order mentioned):
- Male, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (R)
- Male, U.S. representative (D)
- Unknown, another Democrat
- Male, U.S. senator (R)
- Male, U.S. representative (R)
- Male, U.S. House Democratic Whip
- Male, law professor and vp of network of law professors working on regulatory policy
- Male, head of regulatory research at nonprofit think tank
- Male, professor of economics
- Male, U.S. representative (R)
- Male, regulations czar to president
- Female, EPA administrator
- Male, U.S. representative
- Male, farmers union president
- Female, U.S. senator
Notes/analysis: The article also cites a number of studies and group statements. It included four mugshots, one of which was of a female source. The main photo, which was taken by a female photographer, featured a male farmer and his crew.
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