Chris Tryhorn reports from London:
The journalists making key editorial decisions at newspapers and broadcasters are overwhelmingly male, according to a survey published today.
The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality and published the research, said the media was missing out on a “huge pool” of female talent.
Its study showed that only two out of the 17 national newspapers editors were women – the Sun’s Rebekah Wade and Tina Weaver of the Sunday Mirror – while there was just one female deputy editor, Jane Johnson of the News of the World.
It also found that while 15 out of 34 radio and TV presenters were women, just one out of 17 news programme editors were female.
The study said the problem extended to reporting at Westminster, where one in five MPs are female.
Only 26% of political journalists registered at the House of Commons – 104 out of 395 – were women, the society said, while just two out of the 16 political editors of national newspapers were female.
Well, we are not connecting with women.
And they are not working for media dominated by men.
(Thanks to Michael Agar)