Today's LeadElections, Katrina and Economy Split the News Agenda: August 23-29, 2010With the spate of primary races testing the power of the Tea Party movement, the mid-term elections topped the news, but a Katrina anniversary and the faltering economy were close behind. Meanwhile, the New York mosque controversy quieted but didn’t vanish last week. ![]() #9 Rank of Pakistan flooding among biggest weeks of 2010 international disaster coverage Modest Coverage for Pakistan FloodingThe recent flooding in Pakistan, while a tragedy of massive proportions, has generated less than robust coverage in the U.S. mainstream press. The deadly earthquake in Haiti easily generated the most attention of any overseas disaster in 2010, but which other events have generated significant coverage this year?
![]() 100 Days of Gushing Oil – Media Analysis and QuizThe BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico proved to be a complex, technical and long-running saga that taxed the media’s resources and attention span. A new PEJ study highlights eight key points in the oil spill coverage. And a new quiz tests how much you know about media coverage of the disaster.
![]() Islamic Issues Ignite the Blogosphere: August 16-20, 2010
The argument over the Park 51 Islamic center continued in the blogosphere last week, but this time, mosque supporters dominated. Bloggers also reacted to a poll that more Americans believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. On Twitter, an article declaring "The Web is dead" was No. 1. And on YouTube, an obscene gesture drove a popular video.
The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been the summer’s top news story. Test your knowledge of how the disaster was covered with PEJ’s quiz.
The drive for health care reform proved to be the most passionate and polarizing policy fight of Barack Obama’s first year in office. Much of that battle played out through a changing media universe. A PEJ examination of 10 months of health care stories identifies six key elements of that coverage. PEJ reconstructs a chronology of how the Shirley Sherrod saga reverberated around the media echo chamber before changing course. Data from PEJ’s 2009 News Coverage Index are now online. Additionally, toplines from six distinct studies produced last year are available.
The State of the News Media 2010 is now online. This year’s study includes a review of the year, two new interactive features; a survey about online economics, an analysis of online news behavior, analysis of the eight media sectors, and more.
Who Owns the News Media allows users to compare companies by various
indicators, explore each media sector and read profiles of individual
companies. It is a new feature of the State of the News
Media 2010.
Tom Rosenstiel discusses the future of journalism at Minnesota Public Radio.
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