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One striking finding in this examination of gender is the scarcity of female sources on the \u201cNewsHour with Jim Lehrer.\u201d With a gap of 42 percentage points, stories are roughly three and a half times more likely to include a male source as a female source on the signature evening PBS newscast. Just 17% of stories on the \u201cNewsHour\u201d cited at least one female source versus 59% that cited at least one male. This puts the \u201cNewsHour\u201d second only to MSNBC in its lack of female sources.<\/p>\n\n

These data paint a complex picture of the \u201cNewsHour.\u201d For one, the Project\u2019s 2005 Annual Report (which studied the same content) found that the program devoted more of its content than any other medium\u2014even newspaper front pages\u2014to foreign affairs, the topic where women were the least likely to be found.<\/p>\n\n

In addition, the \u201cNewsHour\u201d tended to cite more sources in its stories than other kinds of television news and share more information about the background, expertise and potential biases of those sources. Almost a quarter of its stories (23%) had the highest level of transparency, four or more fully identified sources, versus 18% on commercial evening news and 11% on morning news segments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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PBS<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Network Morning <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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37% <\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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36%<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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39%<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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21<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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23<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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20<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Totals may not equal 100 due to rounding <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Looking deeper, with the addition of gender, it turns out that while PBS excelled at having multiple sources in its stories they were almost always male. The program, for instance, stood out for having four or more male sources in a news story. Nearly a quarter of its stories (24%) contain four or more male sources versus 17% on commercial evening news and 9% on morning news. <\/p>\n\n

But when it came to female sources, PBS was less likely than commercial or morning news to include one, two, three or four.<\/p>\n\n

A March 8 th 2004 story about Iraq\u2019s new constitution, for instance, relied on five male sources and not a single female source. Reporter Gwen Ifill (a woman) began with sound bites from Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the Iraqi governing council, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Iraq\u2019s grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Ifill then entered into a panel discussion with Feisal Istrabadi, an advisor to the governing council and Juan Cole, a professor of Middle East history at the University of Michigan. While the story was in depth and well-sourced, Ifill\u2019s was the only female voice aired.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One striking finding in this examination of gender is the scarcity of female sources on the \u201cNewsHour with Jim Lehrer.\u201d With a gap of 42 percentage points, stories are roughly three and a half times more likely to include a male source as a female source on the signature evening PBS newscast. 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