In this data visualization, the shift in diversity of both race and gender in newsroom staff and leadership across the country is analyzed with some interesting results. The newsrooms overall, as you probably expect, are overwhelmingly white and skewed toward men. More interesting is the fact that over the past 15 years the Washington Post and NY Times have come closer to gender equality, while the USA Today has gone the opposite direction. There is lots more food for thought in the visualized data if you visit the link for this story.
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