--- title: Women's Media Center: News Media Is Dominated By Men description: A new report reveals a prominent gender bias in major broadcast, print, online, and wire outlets canonical: https://time.com/48170/the-media-is-still-dominated-by-men/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-03T17:24:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:59.505Z og:title: Women's Media Center: News Media Is Dominated By Men og:description: A new report reveals a prominent gender bias in major broadcast, print, online, and wire outlets og:url: https://time.com/48170/the-media-is-still-dominated-by-men/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Women's Media Center: News Media Is Dominated By Men twitter:description: A new report reveals a prominent gender bias in major broadcast, print, online, and wire outlets twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Media Is (Still) Dominated By Men > Sponsored content. 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Diversity in newsrooms is critical if media outlets want to cover stories that reach and represent their audiences, but that’s increasingly difficult with women earning only around 36% of bylines or on-camera appearances. The report looked at 20 of the most widely circulated and watched TV networks, newspapers, wires and online news sites in the U.S. Across the news cycle, women are clearly underrepresented. The New York _Times_, for example, has the widest gender gap when it comes to bylines, while the Chicago _Sun-Times_ is close to equal. But some news outlets are certainly doing better than others. For instance, PBS and ABC have women as their primary anchors, but regardless, the news is anchored by men 60% of the time. Just think evening news. The Huffington Post has a nearly equal gender balance, but FoxNews.com and The Daily Beast are far from it. Men also dominate the news wires at the Associated Press and Reuters. “When media are overwhelmingly male (and still, alas, overwhelmingly white), they just aren’t anywhere near as good as they could be,” said Geneva Overholser, a Women’s Media Center board member, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and former ombudsman for _The Washington Post_ in a statement. In general, the research also found that women are more likely to cover topics like lifestyle, culture and health, while men are more likely to cover criminal justice, politics and tech. This annual report is the third in a series from the Women’s Media Center, a nonprofit founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, that’s dedicated to advancing the role of women in media. Check out the breakdown below.  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