India: caste representation in news leadership 2022

A study conducted by Oxfam in India revealed that the majority of leadership roles within news organizations across media types were dominated by editors and proprietors belonging to the general category, grossing over 88 percent in 2022. Digital media outlets were the only type of news media to have some representation of the SC, ST, and OBC categories at over 11 percent, two percent, and five percent respectively.

Caste representation among editors and proprietors of news outlets in India from 2021 to 2022, by media

Characteristic	Scheduled Castes (SC)	Scheduled Tribes (ST)	Other Backward Classes (OBC)	General	Unavailable	Can't say
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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Release date

October 2022

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Region

India

Survey time period

April 2021 to March 2022

Special properties

across 15 leading newspapersi, 12 magazines, and nine digital media outlets in both English and Hindi.

Method of interview

Postal questionnaire

Supplementary notes

Note: The source specified that"Unavailable" applied to respondents who belonged to other religious minorities and "Can't say" to Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs.

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