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A Byline Count for the Next Generation: How Diverse Are the Blogs and Magazines Most Millennials Read?

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We know that the most prestigious magazines in the world don't publish enough women, and we count their bylines every year to confirm it.&nb

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Gawker: The biggest, meanest blog can also be a young writer's portal to a New York Times Magazine confessional, New York

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The Awl: An irreverent blog launched by Gawker outcasts Alex Balk and Choire Sicha, the Awl can be a launchpad to

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Pitchfork. If you're like us, you think of pioneering indie music website Pitchfork as an emporium for alterna-bros. We're wrong. On a week-to-week basis, the website publishes an impressi

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McSweeney'sDave Eggers' quirky quarterly gives up-and-coming literary types the chance to be published alongside established writers like Joyce Carol Oates and cult heroes like

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Grantland: Oof. Bill Simmons' nine-month-old ESPN-owned sports and culture startup is publishing some of the best magazine-style content on the web, most of it by dudes. We counted onl

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VICE: Our generation's sleeper media empire, VICE has built its print, web, and video product around making fun of what people are wearin

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Wired: Since the mid-'90s, this monthly glossy has been the dead-tree bible for the digital set. These days, its print magazine competes with some of the big-name publications for A-list writer

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Thought Catalog: Think of it as a launching pad to the launching pads—this

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Rookie. Rookie is an online magazine specifically for and by teenage girls—founder Tavi Gevinson is 15—so it makes sense that it's mostly written by girls and women (and th

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GOOD. In our one-week sample, GOOD published slightly more women than we did men. Executive Editor Ann Friedman has

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Methodology: Our count examined the top bylines published on these websites between Monday, Feb. 27 and Sunday, March 4. Bylines published under the organization’s name—or bizarre, fake names we could not decipher&mda