• 55.0% of all news reporters are women, while 45.0% are men.
• The average age of an employed news reporter is 40 years old.
• The most common ethnicity of news reporters is White (67.0%), followed by Hispanic or Latino (12.4%), Asian (9.6%) and Black or African American (6.3%).
• News reporters are most in-demand in New York, NY.

Source: News Reporter Demographics and Statistics [2023]: Number Of News Reporters In The US

The shift to mostly female reporters will increase as 2 out of 3 journalism or mass communication graduates are female. Women became the majority of journalism grads beginning in the 1980s; however, since women made up only about 35% of newsroom jobs in the 1980s, it was not until recent years that they became the majority of reporting staff.  However, note that in the 1980s, women were the majority of all college graduates and have remained the majority for nearly 40 years.

Simultaneously, numerous journalists report that women in news are oppressed – even as they became the majority of reporters in a trend that is continuing to increase. This perspective may be shaped by the tendency of news reports to segment the world into victims and oppressors.

Traditional reporting jobs have been decreasing, particularly as many newspapers failed to make a business model transition to successful and sustainable Internet-based news.