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Website: Los Angeles Times

On LATimes.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:50 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, April 17, was titled “Tax measures may be doomed, but they clarify parties’ goals.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Politics and Government: Other domestic politics, government (GMMP No. 4)

Word count: 780

Author: Female

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

1. Male, Senate majority leader
2. Male, billionaire investor
3. Male, Republican pollster
4. Male, House speaker
5. Male, Senator

Website: California Watch

On California Watch, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:50 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, April 17, was titled “Lawmaker, often target of investigations, zeros in on bullet train.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Politics and Government: Other domestic politics, government (GMMP No. 4)

Word count: 970

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

1. Male, U.S. representative
2. Male, president of the stat rail foundation and a bullet train critic.
3. Male, board chairman

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Website: Los Angeles Times

On the LATimes.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 7:50 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, April 10, was titled “Obama to step up push for ‘Buffett Rule’ as Tax Day approaches.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Politics and Government: Other domestic politics, government (GMMP No. 4)

Word count: 556

Author: Female

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

1. Male, investor
2. Male, spokesman
3. Male, economist
4. Male, campaign manager
5. Female, campaign spokeswoman

Website: California Watch

On California Watch, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 7:50 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, April 10, was titled “Neglected for decades, unincorporated communities lack basic public services.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Science and Health: Medicine, health, hygiene, safety (GMMP No. 20)

Word count: 3,558

Author: Female

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

1. Female, community college student and member of advisory council
2. Male, longtime community advocate
3. Male, assemblyman
4. Male, county supervisor
5. Female, county director of environmental resources
6. Male, resident
7. Female, assistant professor of anthropology
8. Male, county board of supervisors
9. Female, wife of retired date palm worker
10. Male, resident
11. Male, whose family owns the park
12. Male, retired staff director for the state Senate Governance and Finance Committee
13. Female, resident and “neighborhood matriarch”
14. Male, city councilman
15. Male, truck driver and resident
16. Female, resident
17. Male, director of institute for public finance and infrastructure policy at university
18. Male, emergency room physician and founder of healthcare initiative
19. Male, assemblyman

Notes/analysis: The article includes three images — two are of males, one is of a female.