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Lead Anchor Research Paper

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In the role of executive producer there are no women or men of color in these position across ABC, CBS and NBC news channels. Additionally, there are no women of color in a lead anchor position, but there are only a few that are in the co-anchor positions. Each national station’s morning news show has exactly one woman of color for each channel; Hoda Kotb with NBC Today, Robin Roberts with Good Morning America and Gayle King with CBS This Morning. As for our local news stations, white females account for 50% of the anchor, co-anchor and reporter positions, whereas women of color only fill 7.78%. Majority of the local station anchor positions are working dual roles as a reporter also. WDRB-41 and WHAS-11 have no women of color in the role …show more content…

By analyzing the number of positions that are currently being held by women of color we can bring awareness to the struggles they face in order to fill a lead anchor or reporter’s position. There has not been a lot of changes, but by bringing attention to how uneven the playing field is when it comes to television journalism, women of color have dealt with for decades has changed very little. The hypothesis is correct, that there is a lack of present when it comes to women of color in the television news media. Consequently, no data sets are available that has discussed the prevalence of racism and sexism in broadcast journalism. My theory of Spiral of Silence reflects that, women of color, value their jobs and fear that if they voice their opinion they could lose their jobs. The lack of dataset does not completely rule out that the spiral of silence theory is applicable in this setting, but that current available studies do not focus on the reason for the lack of representation. Tabnie Dozier, said that the road to become a lead anchor for women of color takes grit, determination the struggles present, keep pressing forward (Dozier, Personal Communication, 2018). With our local news station data there are only 6 women of color in lead anchor jobs compared to 45 white females during the same job. The national morning news show has similar results, only 3 women of color that are in lead anchor roles. To increase the validity of this analysis, including cable network news in this study, which would have impacted the finding greatly. There were studies that I found that mainly focus on women in general, but not women of color, but the dates of these studies were outdated. There were no studies shown that reflected on the lack of women of color in television news and the reason why. There were articles that showcase women of color that has made a difference in the television broadcast,

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