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Media outlets play a key role in spreading scientific knowledge to thegeneral public and raising the profile of researchers among their peers. Yet,how journalists choose to present researchers in their stories is poorlyunderstood. Using a comprehensive dataset of 223,587 news stories from 288 U.S.outlets reporting on 100,486 research papers across all areas of science, weinvestigate if the authors' ethnicities, as inferred from names, are associatedwith whether journalists explicitly mention them by name. By focusing onresearch papers news outlets chose to cover, our analysis reduces concerns thatdifferences in name mentions are driven by differences in research quality ornewsworthiness. We find substantial disparities in name mention rates acrossethnically-distinctive names. Researchers with non-Anglo names, especiallythose with East Asian and African names, are significantly less likely to bementioned in news stories covering their research, even when comparing storiesfrom a particular news outlet reporting on publications in a particularscientific venue on a particular research topic. The disparities are not fullyexplained by authors' affiliation locations, suggesting that pragmatic factorssuch as difficulties in scheduling interviews play only a partial role.Furthermore, among U.S.-based authors, journalists more often use authors'institutions instead of names when referring to non-Anglo-named authors,suggesting that journalists' rhetorical choices are also key. Overall, thisstudy finds evidence of ethnic disparities in how researchers are described inthe media coverage of their research, likely affecting thousands ofnon-Anglo-named scholars in our data alone.

Author Mentions in Science News Reveal Widespread Disparities Across Name-inferred Ethnicities