Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, put it perfectly: “Women who bravely come forward to re-port rape deserve media that represents their voices in equal measure to those of men,” she said in the report.
Cristal Williams Chancellor, director of communications for WMC, wrote that “To tell the whole story, the demographics of the journalists must reflect the demographics of society.”
The report comes out of the Women’s Media Center(which counts Gloria Steinem as a co-founder) and it sheds light on some problematic trends in the coverage of sexual assault on high school and college campuses.
Women’s Media Center President Julie Burton urged the media to “take a hard look at where it stands on this kind of critical work and figure out how it plans to move forward in a more equitable way.”
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