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Why few women are leading America's newsrooms

Clip: 9/14/2014 | 3m 24s

Few women are leading America's newsrooms, according to a newly-published Nieman Report.

Women hold few positions of authority in newsrooms across the United States, according to a Nieman Report published earlier this week. Some experts say this disparity could have far-reaching impacts for consumers of the mainstream media. Anna Griffin, a reporter and editor at The Oregonian newspaper and the report's author, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the industry-wide problem.

09/14/2014 | Rating NR

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