November 22, 2009
This story plus Oprah pulls the plug on her show after 25 years, growth stalls for top online news sites and the Army limits media access for Palin event at Fort Bragg top this morning's headlines.

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Health Care and Fort Hood Dominate the Blogs: November 9-13, 2009

The new media world divided its attention between two stories last week: the progress of health care reform in Congress and the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings. On Twitter, technology-related issues topped the agenda. And on YouTube, that soccer player just won’t go away.

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Ratio of Lou Dobbs’ coverage of immigration in 2009 compared to his CNN colleagues

The Dobbs Difference

Recently departed CNN host Lou Dobbs may have left that job because his more opinionated style clashed with the network’s down-the-middle political brand. But a PEJ examination of the content of his show in 2009 also suggests that Dobbs clearly distinguished himself from his colleagues when it came to news priorities.

Special Features
Tom Rosenstiel discusses the future of journalism at Minnesota Public Radio.

In February 2009, a PEJ study found the Washington Press corps had not so much shrunk as been transformed by a rise in niche and foreign journalists. New data is now available on one aspect of that press corps, the Capitol Hill contingent.

Data from PEJ’s 2008 News Coverage Index and Campaign Coverage Index are now online. Additionally, toplines from nine distinct content studies produced last year are available.

The State of the News Media 2009, PEJ's annual report on the health of American Journalism is available online. The study analyzes trends in the main media sectors and includes features like a Year in the News, Lessons from the Election and more.

PEJ produced 20 reports related to the 2008 presidential campaign, plus studied the media coverage of the election week by week. See all of PEJ's campaign-focused research here.

Updated Edition of the Elements of Journalism
The latest edition of Elements is completely updated and includes a new 10th principle--the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
Latest from PewResearch.org
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center.