Transgender Journalists’ Group Launches Media Analysis Tool

A journalists’ group has launched a data-visualization tool that provides close to real-time information on coverage of transgender people.

The Trans News Initiative, launched in November by the Trans Journalists Association, is a partnership between TJA, University of Miami journalism professor Alberto Cairo, and Polygraph, the marketing arm of the data-journalism publication the Pudding. Kae Petrin, TJA cofounder and current board chair, said the project was motivated by the need to provide members with a clearer snapshot of what trends are and aren’t being covered.

“We had been having a lot of internal conversations about how little data there is on some of the areas that we’ve been working on,” they said. Though academics do some of this work, Petrin said, “sometimes those studies are coming out two, three or four years after they’re relevant, just due to the academic publication timeline."

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