Data: Black women more likely to go missing but receive less news coverage than missing white women 

“Not one person can name a missing black or brown male or female or child that has garnered mainstream media,” said Derrica Wilson, the co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation.
“If Black people go missing at double their occurrence in the actual population, which happens to be the case, there should be double the stories. But in fact, it's the opposite,” said Kyle Pope, the editor-in-chief and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review.
Last year, Pope and his colleagues launched their “Are You Press Worthy” initiative to call attention to the news coverage disparity in America. By inputting your age, race and location, the tool predicts how much news coverage a person would receive based off which cases have made headlines in the past.
“When you go missing, your case gets more or less coverage, and it correlates directly to race,” Pope said.
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