Race and leadership in the news media 2022: evidence from five markets
In this Reuters Institute factsheet, we analyse the racial breakdown of top editors at a strategic sample of 100 major online and offline news outlets in five different markets across four continents. Building off work started in 2020, we find in 2022 that only 21% of the 82 top editors across the 1...
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| description | In this Reuters Institute factsheet, we analyse the racial breakdown of top editors at a strategic sample of 100 major online and offline news outlets in five different markets across four continents. Building off work started in 2020, we find in 2022 that only 21% of the 82 top editors across the 100 brands covered are non-white. In every country, the percentage of non-white people in the general population is much higher than it is among top editors. There continues to be no simple relationship between the percentage of non-white journalists and the percentage of non-white top editors. As many journalists and citizens continue to call for the news media to reckon with structural inequalities around race and racism, we find an increase in the number of non-white top editors in two of the countries covered—but there are still no nonwhite top editors in our sample of brands in three other countries. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ddf727de-3e0e-4631-8953-7705022ca86e2024-10-25T07:56:43ZRace and leadership in the news media 2022: evidence from five marketsReporthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_93fcuuid:ddf727de-3e0e-4631-8953-7705022ca86eEnglishSymplectic ElementsReuters Institute for the Study of Journalism2022Adams, KSelva, MNielsen, RIn this Reuters Institute factsheet, we analyse the racial breakdown of top editors at a strategic sample of 100 major online and offline news outlets in five different markets across four continents. Building off work started in 2020, we find in 2022 that only 21% of the 82 top editors across the 100 brands covered are non-white. In every country, the percentage of non-white people in the general population is much higher than it is among top editors. There continues to be no simple relationship between the percentage of non-white journalists and the percentage of non-white top editors. As many journalists and citizens continue to call for the news media to reckon with structural inequalities around race and racism, we find an increase in the number of non-white top editors in two of the countries covered—but there are still no nonwhite top editors in our sample of brands in three other countries. |
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