Tue September 04, 2012
Who's Writing Nine Newspapers' Presidential Election Coverage?
A new infographic from the Women's Media Center looks at the gender byline breakdown in presidential election coverage. According to a blog post on the WMC site, "On Monday the Women’s Media Center released the shocking statistic, calculated by The 4th Estate Project, that from the presidential primary period (January 1 to April 15) to the general election (April 15 to August 25), 72 to 76 percent of newspaper stories covering the 2012 presidential election were written by men." Check out the whole thing after the jump.
