Eight per cent of top editors in 20 top online and offline news outlets across Brazil, Germany, the UK and US are non-white as against an average of 31 percent non-white general population in these countries, according to the Reuters Institute factsheet on Monday.
The factsheet – titled ‘Race and leadership in the news media 2022: evidence from five markets’ – analysed diversity in a strategic sample of 100 major online and offline news outlets in five different markets across four continents, including South Africa and the countries mentioned above.
