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🧐This investigation examined 580 news stories in the top three local television news programs in a Northeastern U.S. television market for a two-week period. Content analysis was used to determine whether or not there were in the prevalence of reporters and anchors and in the type of stories they reported.

🤓Analysis of newscasts revealed that female reporters were more likely to present human interest and health related stories, while males were more likely to present political stories.

👉Analysis of news sources revealed that male experts were used significantly more often than were female experts as news sources.

🙅‍♀️There was no relationship between time news stories were presented and gender of the reporters or anchors.

❓What do you think ?

❓Do you think the research reflects the truth?

❓Do you believe that the time the news is presented has nothing to do with the gender of the reporters or presenters?

Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-009-9686-5

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