More and more women are becoming news directors. But, as Table 4 details, the careers survey found white men in the minority as news anchors, reporters and producers. They had most often lost ground to white women. Practically all assignment editors decide stories others cover. Producers most often are involved in both kinds of decisions, especially on program content.
Most news anchors have a say about the content of their programs.
Sports directors and anchors, often in a world apart from the newsroom, typically make decisions on both coverage and content. Women logged in as decision-makers a bit more often than men, more so on program content than story assignments. That's consistent with the female numbers in production and anchoring. Minority journalists lagged whites, by gender as well as race, in decision- making both for news coverage and news programs. They take news assignments rather than giving them.