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 February 8, 2013  This story, plus magazine newsstand sales fall, the future of print media, and digital magazine sales are still tiny, all in today's headlines.
Today's Lead Will Conservative Talkers Take On Immigration Reform?Back in 2007, when President George W. Bush pushed for new immigration legislation, PEJ research showed the degree to which conservative talk hosts attacked the measure. And, they themselves took credit for helping to kill it. Will these hosts reprise their staunch opposition this time around? The early indications suggest that perhaps not.  #1 Rank of Syria among the Deadliest Places for Journalists in 2012 Where Journalists Risk Their Lives to ReportThe violence in Syria continues to escalate, and with it comes an uptick in victims who are there to report on the conflict. PEJ looks at how the country’s current civil war ranks among other conflicts in recent years when it comes to journalism casualties.
  In Social Media and Opinion Pages, Newtown Sparks Calls for Gun ReformGun control was an immediate focus of the conversation on social media and in the opinion pages of newspapers following the shooting at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a special PEJ report. How does the response to this tragedy compare with other shootings? How did coverage in opinion pieces differ than the social media conversation? The report offers answers.
  Hurricane Sandy and Twitter:How did people use Twitter during Hurricane Sandy and what did they tweet about? A new study from PEJ shows that over half of the conversation on and around the hurricane’s landfall was news, information, photos and videos of and about the super storm.
Tom Rosenstiel, the founder and director of PEJ for the last 15 years, has been named the Executive Director of The American Press Institute. Amy Mitchell, who has worked as Deputy Director at PEJ throughout the organization's 15 years, will become PEJ's Acting Director. 
In the growing realm of mobile news, men and the more highly educated emerge as more engaged news consumers, according to a new study by the PEJ, in collaboration with The Economist Group. PEJ report finds that from the conventions to the eve of the final presidential debate, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both received more negative than positive coverage from the news media, though overall Obama has had an edge. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism is pleased to release the 2011 News Coverage Index data set and toplines of additional content analysis reports. 
The Who Owns the News Media database offers financial statistics on 123 companies and the more than 4,000 radio and television stations, newspapers, magazines and news websites that they own. 
PEJ's latest report on the health and status of American journalism is now online. This year's report includes analysis of the eight main sectors of media and special reports on mobile devices and news consumption and the role of Facebook and Twitter in news.
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