THURSDAY 9 APRIL

Thank you for signing up to our webinar. We hope you've enjoyed Meera Selva's presentation on women and leadership in the newts media. We received many great questions from places like India, Nepal, Britain and Vietnam. If you haven't been able to join us (or if you want to review some of our findings in the future), here's a quick summary of our conversation and a few resources you may find helpful in the months ahead.

🏡 We are planning another webinar for next Thursday. We'll announce the details soon. 

Women in the news media in 2020

The figures. In March we published a new piece of research by Simge Andı, Meera Selva and Rasmus Nielsen. The factsheet analyses the gender of top editors in 200 newsrooms from 10 different markets. Only 23% of those top editors are women despite the fact that women account for 40% of the working journalists in those markets. The percentage varies from market to market, as you can see in the chart. 

The correlations. In every single market covered by our factsheet men form the majority of top editors, including countries like Brazil and Finland where women outnumber men among working journalists. Our researchers looked at possible correlations:

• They found a strong, positive correlation between the number of female top editors and the percentage of women working in journalism. 
• They found no correlation between the number of female top editors and gender equality in society as a whole. Countries like Germany and South Korea have good scores on the UN Gender Inequality Index but have very few women at the top. 

Learn more. The sample includes ten markets in four different continents. In each market, we focused on the top ten offline (TV, print, and radio) and online news brands in terms of weekly usage, as measured in the 2019 Reuters Institute Digital News Report. You can learn more about our methodology in this link. 

🎥 Watch the webinar.  
🖥 See the slides.
📱 Read our recent factsheet on women and leadership in the news media in 2020. 
🙋🏽‍♀️ Read this piece by Dorothy Byrne on how any news organisation benefits from having a diverse newsroom. 
👩‍🏫 Read this article by Helen Lewis on why coronavirus is a disaster for feminism and this piece by Lucia Graves on why the pandemic increased women's domestic burden. 
🧟‍♂️ Read the transcript of Rebecca Corbett's Memorial Lecture on her role on the Harvey Weinstein investigation. 

Suggested reading and resources on the pandemic

Suggested reading. The Reuters Institute has published a few pieces that can help you navigate the current pandemic and understand the impact it's having on our industry and on misinformation worldwide. Here are the links:

🧟‍♂️ Types, sources, and claims of COVID–19 misinformation. | J. Scott Brennen, Felix Simon, Philip N. Howard and Rasmus Nielsen 

🦠Advice from public health experts Peter Drobac and Trudie Lang on how journalists can help stop the spread of the outbreak. | By Eduardo Suárez

💰What the pandemic may mean for the business of news. | By Rasmus Nielsen

🤥 How fact-checkers are fighting COVID–19 misinformation worldwide. | By Eduardo Suárez   

🧶A thread with many examples of great journalism on the pandemic. | From our Twitter account

Useful resources. Many institutions are creating guides and resources to help journalists cover this all-consuming story. Here are links to the best ones we've found: 

• The Committee to Protect Journalists has put together this safety advisory and has translated it into many languages. | CPJ
• A list of resources to help local newsrooms cover the coronavirus pandemic and adapt to remote work. | Lenfest Institute
• The International Press Institute has launched a website to track the attacks on press freedom worldwide in the age of COVID–19. | IPI
• WAN-IFRA is gathering pieces on how to manage a newsroom during the outbreak. | WAN-IFRA
• The ICFJ has launched a forum to connect journalists with some of the world’s top health practitioners and newsroom leaders. | ICFJ  
• The European Journalism Observatory is exploring how news brands are covering the pandemic in dozens of countries. | EJO

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Today's email was written by Eduardo Suárez and Matthew Leake.