| inbluevt | Date: Friday, 2013/07/19, 9:49 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The New York Times is one of the world’s leading news organizations. But there’s room for improvement — especially when it comes to diversity.
In an analysis of 352 front-page stories from the Times in January and February 2013, we found that Times reporters quoted 3.4 times as many male sources as female sources.
Sources were identified as either male, female or unknown. Unknown were institutions, those only quoted as “spokespersons,” anonymous sources, etc. In total, only 19 percent (or 465 of 2,411)
sources were female. The front-page stories were categorized as World, U.S., Politics, Art, Business, DealBook, Education, Health, N.Y./Region, Science, Sports, Style and Technology.
We chose to analyze the Times because it has significant influence and its stories help shape public opinion. This is not an extensive analysis, and the Times numbers aren’t necessarily reflective of the
number of female sources in news stories published by other outlets.
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