The statistic presents a distribution of the showrunners for new TV shows on selected broadcast networks in the United States in the 2016-17 season, sorted by ethnicity and gender. According to the source, 33 percent of the showrunners on ABC's new shows for the season were white females.

According to a study conducted in 2023, the majority of the most viewed TV shows in the United States featured white lead characters. Additionally, Black lead protagonists were present in ** percent of these programs, while Hispanic actors were significantly lower represented, at ** percent of the TV shows.

According to a report conducted in 2020, African Americans made up ten percent of the boards of the top 200 media companies in the United States that year. Hispanic or Latino and Asian Americans also had limited representation on the boards of major media companies, with 81 percent of the total accounted by for non-minority groups.

The majority of TV newsroom employees in the United States in 2021 were white, with African American staff and Hispanic and Latino employees making up less than 25 percent of the total. The survey projected that the share of Hispanic and Latino employees would increase slightly in 2022 but the forecasted percentage remains low. Asian Americans have even less representation, accounting for less than three percent of the TV newsroom workforce.

In 2022, data revealed that 88 percent of persons employed as journalists or newspaper and periodical editors in the United Kingdom were white. Overall, there were only small fluctuations between 2016 and 2021, demonstrating that there is ample room for increased representation of non-white employees within the industry, though the share of journalists from other ethnic groups grew by four percent between 2020 and 2022.

The racial representation in lead roles on U.S. television shows reveals notable disparities between linear and streaming platforms. In the first half of 2024, Black actors led 24 percent of the most popular linear TV shows, while only 12 percent of streaming series featured Black leads. Hispanic representation lagged behind, with just 11 percent of streaming leads and a mere three percent on linear TV, highlighting the ongoing challenge of achieving diversity in television that accurately reflects the U.S. population.

In 2024, more than ** percent of people employed in the motion picture and video industries in the United States identified as white. About one out of ten employees identified as Black or African American. That same year, almost ********** of employees in the U.S. film industry were male.

In 2024, ** percent of all male characters appearing in the top 100 highest-grossing films in the United States were white. Black female characters accounted for about ** percent of all speaking characters that same year.

Despite comprising of a smaller share of the U.S. population than African Americans or Hispanics, the most represented non-white U.S. CEOs were of an Asian background. They made up 55 percent of CEO positions at Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies in 2024. By comparison, 11 percent of CEOs at the time were African American. The rise of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) Investments in ESG have risen dramatically over last few years. In November 2023 there were approximately 480 billion U.S. dollars in ESG ETF assets worldwide, compared to 16 billion U.S. dollars in 2015. ESG measures were put in place to encourage companies to act responsibly, with the leading reason for ESG investing stated to be brand and reputation according to managers and asset owners. Gender diversity With the general acceptance of ESG in larger companies, there has still been a significant employment gap of women working in senior positions. For example, the share of women working as a partner or principal at EY, one of the largest accounting firms in the world, was just only 28 percent in 2023.

In the U.S., median household income rose from 51,570 U.S. dollars in 1967 to 80,610 dollars in 2023. In terms of broad ethnic groups, Black Americans have consistently had the lowest median income in the given years, while Asian Americans have the highest; median income in Asian American households has typically been around double that of Black Americans.

After reaching an all-time high in 2020, the share of lead actors in movies in the United States that the source identified as people of color experienced a decrease in 2022, standing just above ** percent. A decade earlier, approximately **** percent of the lead actors in U.S. films were not white. Celebrating a more diverse cinema The year 2020 also had a record-high share of Academy Award-winning movies whose directors were not white: **** percent. The Oscars might have reflected a general trend in the industry since one-fourth of U.S. film directors that year were part of an ethnic minority – the highest percentage in history. In 2022, that figure would increase yet again to **** percent. Minorities behind and before the big screen The percentage of non-white movie writers in the U.S. has also been on the rise, going from less than ***** percent in 2011 to over ** percent a decade later, before dropping to **** in 2022. Meanwhile, cinema audiences in the U.S. remained predominantly Caucasian, with white viewers accounting for ** percent of the movie tickets sold in 2021, the highest share in a historical series started in 2015. Hispanic or Latino-identifying people traditionally hold the second-largest percentage, roughly accounting for one-quarter of moviegoers in the U.S.

This statistic shows the public opinion on the music genres which are most representative of America today in the United States as of May 2018, by ethnicity. During the survey, 54 percent of White respondents stated that they considered country music to be representative of modern America.