Across media, are women more likely to be cited in some story topics than in others? To a certain degree the answer is yes, but still at levels much behind that of men. In fact, the only topic area where women were cited in more than half of the stories was lifestyle stories such as […]
Traditional commercial broadcast television news did a good deal more than cable in finding women sources. The three commercial evening newscasts—on ABC, CBS, and NBC—were nearly 50% more likely than cable to have female sources, but still only about half as inclusive as newspapers. Just over a quarter (27%) of evening news stories cited a […]
Female Sources in the News–by Outlet Outlet Newspapers Net. Even. PBS NewsHour Net. Morn. Cable Internet Total Female Source # 0 Count 3871 489 228 537 2686 1214 9025 % 58.7% 72.6% 82.9% 65.8% 81.5% 63.8% 66.6% 1 Count 1437 108 30 178 502 400 2655 % 21.8% 16.0% 10.9% […]
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One striking finding in this examination of gender is the scarcity of female sources on the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” With a gap of 42 percentage points, stories are roughly three and a half times more likely to include a male source as a female source on the signature evening PBS newscast. Just 17% of […]
Has the 24-hour news culture been more inclusive of women? Hardly. Females fared worse here compared with any other medium studied. Of the roughly 6,550 cable stories examined on CNN, FOX and MSNBC, just 19% cited a female source. The 20-day study spread across nine months of the year included three program types from each […]