| Summary: | In this factsheet, we analyse the percentage of people of colour in top editorial positions in a strategic sample of 100 major online and offline news outlets in five markets across four continents: Brazil, Germany, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Building off work started in 2020, we find in 2024 that only 23% of the 75 top editors across the 100 brands covered are people of colour, the same as in 2023. In every country, the percentage of people of colour in the general population remains higher than among top editors. There is no simple relationship between the percentage of journalists of colour and top editors of colour. In countries where we previously found evidence of increasing racial diversity, this year we find stagnation or small reversals, and like last year, there are still no top editors of colour in our sample in two of the countries.
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