Wendy Bacon ignored a list of 20 names provided by The Australian MEDIA academic Wendy Bacon has defended her latest research project, a study of the involvement of women in the press, despite criticisms she has overlooked key information. The latest report from the Women in the Media project, published yesterday, is based on a byline count of major Australian newspapers taken on one single day this year, March 4. That count shows that of the 665 bylines on the day, 31 per cent were female.