How Diverse Are Your Social Networks?

Now we know the most racially diverse social network in the U.S.: congratulations, Instagram. The data was revealed in a Wall Street Journal story about Twitter touting its diversity to lure advertisers. Twitter has gone so far as to hire a "multicultural strategist" in November to lead "its effort to target black, Hispanic and Asian-American users."

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Women’s bylines

The Women’s Media Center announced the release of its 2013 Status of Women in the U.S. Media report Friday; it finds that the news media “remains staggeringly limited to a single demographic.” Pure online sites, the report says, “have fallen into the same rut as legacy media. Male bylines outnumbered female bylines at four of six sites reviewed.”

Read ore at Poynter