Orlando Media Put More Women on Sports Field
By Juliette Terzieff, WeNews

In few places have female sports journalists been able to burst into the locker room as they have here. At the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, the city's largest circulation daily, women are 25 percent of the sports staff. Three women work as sports anchors on local television stations, amounting to 25 percent of that niche.

In both cases, the Orlando numbers are more than double the national average, according to the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. The institute's June report on more than 300 newspapers found that women make up an average of 13 percent of sports departments�\sports editors, assistant editors, columnists and reporters�\even though 40 percent of high school and university athletes are women. The national study, commissioned by the Associated Press Sports Editors, was the first of its kind.

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