Women and leadership in the news media 2021: evidence from 12 markets
In this Reuters Institute’s factsheet, we analyse the gender breakdown of top editors in a strategic sample of 240 major online and offline news outlets in 12 different markets across four continents.
Only 22 per cent of the 180 top editors across the 240 brands covered are women, despite the fact that, on average, 40 per cent of journalists in the 12 markets are women.