Editorial: Our efforts to diversify Nature’s journalism are progressing, but work remains
’s journalism more systematically. That September, we began tracking diversity in journalistic content across all relevant teams. This week, we’re reporting data for 1,118 written articles and 123 podcasts and videos published between 1 April 2021 and 31 January 2023. In the written pieces,directly quoted or paraphrased the words of 5,252 people. The podcasts and videos featured the voices of a total of 240 people.
Our data show that people using he/him pronouns comprised around 55% of those quoted or paraphrased in written articles published since April 2021, with about 36% using she/her pronouns. There were 24 people with they/them pronouns, and 5 who used other pronouns . The preferred pronouns of most of the remaining 9% are not known, meaning that of those who did disclose their preference, around 60% used he/him pronouns and some 40% used she/her.
Of the 240 people quoted or featured in our podcast and video content, 48% used he/him pronouns . Some 60% of those featured were established in their careers, and 81% were based in North America or Europe. These data show that we are continuing to make progress on gender diversity. But there is clearly still work to do, particularly when it comes to improving the global representation of voices in our pages, as well as the proportion of researchers at earlier career stages.
We will continue to record our data, and we aim to improve on these figures, proactively seeking out and trying to better represent voices from historically less-represented peoples and parts of the world. The result, we hope, will be better journalism derived from a more accurate representation of the diverse scientific community of which
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