We use the Top News Data that collates news articles from news feeds from ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, LA Times, NBC, NYT, Politico, USAT, and WaPo, and ethnicolr to estimate the racial diversity of the people mentioned in the news and the newsroom.
Data suggest that African Americans and Hispanics are grossly underrepresented in the newsroom. We see a more attenuated pattern for the mentions.
Race/ethnicity of authors across all outlets.
| Race/Ethnicity | Percentage |
|---|---|
| nh_white | 78% |
| nh_black | 5.7% |
| asian | 8.5% |
| hispanic | 7.3% |
| other | .4% |
Race/ethnicity of people mentioned in the news across all outlets.
| Race/Ethnicity | Percentage |
|---|---|
| nh_white | 73.5% |
| nh_black | 9.5% |
| asian | 8.6% |
| hispanic | 8% |
| other | .4% |
For channel-wise breakdown, please refer to the notebooks.
Rajashekar Chintalapati and Gaurav Sood