Men dominate sports and government reporting; health and education reporters more likely to be women, Pew finds | Nieman Journalism Lab

Men and sports! Women and families! U.S. journalists’ beats vary based on their gender and race — and still largely break down along stereotypical lines, according to some research that Pew Research released Tuesday. The new data points were pulled from a report on nearly 12,000 U.S. journalists that Pew published in 2022. Here are a few interesting data points:

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