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Science journalism is the critical conduit between the academic and public spheres and consequently shapes the public's view of science and scientists.
However, as observed in other forms of recognition in science, biases may shift coverage away from the known demographics within science [@doi:10.1101/2020.04.14.927251, @doi:10.1016/j.cell.2022.01.004].
Ideally, scientific journalism is representative of academic papers.
Though it would be best for news coverage to promote equitable representation, at a minimum, quotes and citations would ideally match the perceived ethnic and gender demographics of scientific academia.
Though it would be best for news coverage to promote equitable representation, at a minimum, quotes and citations would ideally match the predicted name origin and gender demographics of scientific academia.
To examine this last point, we analyzed 22,001 news articles published in _Nature_, to identify quoted, mentioned, and cited people.
We then compared this to the authorship statistics from _Nature_'s papers and a subset of _Springer Nature_'s English language papers.

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