Gender, Age and Professional Features of Newsroom Staff: Results of Local Newspapers Investigation

Section: Sociology of Journalism

The article presents the results of gender analysis of the key social and professional characteristics of the journalists in small and medium-sized cities in Russia. The level of professional competencies has been explored as well. The analysis is based on the results of survey of 153 journalists and editors-in-chief from 55 cities. The data can be used in order to identify the areas of problems caused by gender and age imbalance at the newsrooms.

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