Gender and Race in the Political Press
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2 min readMay 10, 2017
Farai Chideya has covered every presidential election since 1996, but after last year’s raucous campaign, she wondered how political campaign coverage is influenced by the gender and racial makeup of our political press. This spring she joined the Shorenstein Center as a Joan Shorenstein Fellow to take a closer look at the question, but was surprised by the number of newsrooms that were deeply reluctant to engage on the subject.
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