Both journalism and "journalism" are meta-games. They don't really track where the industry is -- they track a separate and not necessarily representative alte

Both journalism and "journalism" are meta-games. They don't really track where the industry is -- they track a separate and not necessarily representative alternative advancement system. You earn journo-points in an entirely different way than you earn geek-points or engineering-points or startup-points or money-points. (P.S. All of above available independently from each other, too.) The criteria for awarding journo-points are set a wee bit by fashion, a wee bit by tradition, a wee bit by merit, and a whole heck of a lot by the desire of journalists to have power and privilege and the desire of media outlets to have the opportunity to sell the attention of people who have high purchasing power. If one hypothetically wanted to get ladies more journo-points, one would not tell them to improve their coding ability, because the ROI on coding ability in producing journo-points is pretty poor. I don't think most people are really interested in the social justice maximizing allocation of journo-points, though. (n.b. There are a variety of activities which are worth zero or negative geek-points that are worth scads of journo-points which I could use as an example here. I'm self-censoring because I don't want to accuse the folks on those Top X Lists of benefiting from them even though, in aggregate, they certainly benefit from them.) I would be very careful making inferences from present allocations of journo-points into how we can better incentivize any group of people into seeing that startup-points or geek-points or engineering-points are what they should be optimizing for, if we decide that that is indeed our goal. (On the specific subject of gender, I think that at least part of the discussion should probably be "What kind of points do women at the margin want?" and, if that isn't geek-points, "Should we convince women at the margin to sacrifice what they currently value for geek-points?")