Gender (in)equality in Chilean press: journalists and sources

IF 1.3 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Revista de Comunicacion-Peru Pub Date : 2021-09-09 DOI:10.26441/rc20.2-2021-a14

Marta Mensa Torras, Matthieu Vernier, L. Cárcamo-Ulloa, Fabían Ruíz, Boris Sotomayor-Gómez

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Abstract

Who writes the news in the Chilean press according to gender? Who are the sources, male or female, in the Chilean press? Is there a relationship between the gender of journalists and the gender of the sources in the Chilean press? This article studies the gender of the Chilean newsroom and their sources in 12,113 news through a quantitative method with a computational social science approach. This method combines web scraping and natural language processing techniques to gather and preprocess data, facilitating the exploration of complex social phenomena. Results show important biases in journalists and source gender. From a sample of 158 journalists, 99 were men (63%) and 59 women (37%). Also, from 12,113 news, 7,565 (62%) were written by male and 4,548 (38%) by female journalists. Of the 12,334 sources mentioned in the news, 9,771 were men (79%) and 2,563 were women (21%). A significant finding is that equality in the newsroom is related to how female and male journalists choose their sources. In other words, when a media has a newsroom with gender equality, the sources of the journalists are more equitable too. These results have important insights to discuss within the journalism schools, to make students aware of the gender bias in the profession. Furthermore, if the presence of female – journalists or sources- increased in the media, it would allow them to grow their media power and status.

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智利新闻界的性别平等:记者和消息来源

谁在智利媒体上按性别写新闻？智利媒体的消息来源是谁，男性还是女性？记者的性别与智利新闻界消息来源的性别之间是否存在关系？本文采用计算社会科学的方法，通过定量的方法研究了12113条新闻中智利新闻编辑室的性别及其来源。这种方法结合了网络抓取和自然语言处理技术来收集和预处理数据，有助于探索复杂的社会现象。结果显示，记者和消息来源性别存在重要偏见。从158名记者的样本中，99人为男性（63%），59人为女性（37%）。此外，在12113条新闻中，7565条（62%）由男性记者撰写，4548条（38%）由女性记者撰写。在新闻中提到的12334名消息来源中，9771人为男性（79%），2563人为女性（21%）。一个重要的发现是，新闻编辑室的平等与女性和男性记者如何选择来源有关。换言之，当一家媒体拥有一个性别平等的新闻编辑室时，记者的来源也更加公平。这些结果有重要的见解可以在新闻学院内讨论，让学生意识到职业中的性别偏见。此外，如果女性——记者或消息来源——在媒体中的存在增加，这将使她们的媒体权力和地位得以提高。

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Revista de Comunicacion-Peru COMMUNICATION-

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2.70

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14.30%

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审稿时长

24 weeks

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