Female top news editors worldwide by market 2024

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A survey conducted in early 2024 found that as of February that year, 43 percent of top news editors in the United States were women. By contrast, in Mexico the share of top editors that were women was just six percent, faring the poorest in terms of gender representation and parity among all markets in the study aside from Japan.

Share of female top editors in news brands in selected markets worldwide from 2020 to 2024

Characteristic	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Japan	0%	0%	9%	17%	0%
Mexico	6%	6%	11%	5%	6%
Kenya	-	27%	13%	13%	13%
South Korea	11%	15%	13%	14%	20%
Brazil	22%	12%	7%	13%	23%
Spain	-	8%	20%	19%	25%
Hong Kong	13%	17%	8%	27%	25%
Germany	27%	19%	17%	20%	25%
South Africa	47%	60%	40%	20%	29%
Finland	33%	27%	18%	36%	36%
United Kingdom	29%	27%	38%	35%	40%
United States	41%	47%	50%	44%	43%

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Release date

March 2024

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020 to 2024

Number of respondents

240*

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

*Data collected by the source at 240 news outlets in each year from 2021 to 2024 and at 200 outlets in 2020.
Data was not collected for Spain or Kenya in the 2020 report.

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