Our 2024 Women for Media report is the sixth edition in a series initiated by WLIA in 2012. Bringing together an expert team of media and political science scholars to assess the current state of women’s representation in the Australian news media – from the perspective of who produces the news, and who features in it.
This report is the largest and most innovative study of its kind to track gender representation in bylines across key news topics and major Australian media outlets. Analysing over 200,000 articles with advanced machine learning techniques for topic clustering, complemented by generative AI and rigorous manual coding, this report represents a significant advancement in media and gender research.
