Report: Gender Diversity Stagnant In Newsrooms

According to Women's Media Center,  Gender Diversity remains stagnant in newsrooms and horrendous in sports journalism.

Those are just some of the conclucsions in “Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2014,” the annual report released by the Women’s Media Center, which tracks the depiction, participation and representation of women across various areas of journalism and entertainment.

Released on Wednesday and comprising statistics from numerous news outlets and advocacy groups, the 67-page report is an amalgam of stubbornly persistent statistics coupled with occasional hints of progress. Where women media professionals have made inroads in some disciplines, their representation has flat-lined or even regressed in other areas.

Of women in radio news departments....

Among the findings:

• The number of women in radio news jumped 8 percent from 2012 to 2013, narrowing one of the historically widest gender gaps in the new industry. Elsewhere in broadcast news, there were losses in female on-air talent and broadcast maanagers.
• Two women, 1.09 percent, were among the 183 sports radio hosts on Talkers magazine 'Heavy Hundred' List.  The Top Ten among Talker's news talk show 'Heavy Hundred' included no women.

Those making the list:

• No. 24 Andrea Tantaros
• No. 42 Dr. Joy Browne
• No. 49 Randi Rhodes
• No. 50 Kim Komando
• No. 53 Dr. Laura Schlessinger
• No. 61 Rose Tennent (of The War Room With Quinn & Rose)
• No. 64 Terry Gross (NPR)
• No. 80 Heidi Harris (of Heidi Harris, Brian Whitman and Gelnn Shapiro)
• No. 81 Leslie Marshall
• No. 83 Dana Loesch
• No. 99 Amy Iverson (of Amy Iverson & Jay McFarland)

Female general managers in radio now comprise 14 percent of all general managers down from 2012's 19.3 percent.