78 Percent Of U.K. Newspaper Articles Are Written By Men. Is U.S. Media Any Better?

By: Elana Zak | mediabistro.com

A writer for the United Kingdom’s the Guardian recently conducted an informal analysis and found that in an average month, 78 percent of newspaper articles are written by a man.

Last June, for four weeks, Kira Cochrane and a small team “doggedly” counted the bylines of every single story that appeared in the Monday-Friday editions of seven newspapers — the Daily Mail; the Guardian; the Times; the Daily Telegraph; the Daily Mirror; the Sun; and the Independent. They kept track of if the author was a male or a female.