Numbers: Our Data Library
This library contains all data PEJ creates or collects about the news media. The selections below will appear as charts you can customize. Use the menus on the left to filter the data according to your interests.
| | Date Posted: May 14, 2008 | | Barack Obama has consistently dominated the media narrative compared to GOP candidate John McCain. Obama’s wife, Michelle, mirrors this trend, garnering nearly three times the amount of attention as McCain’s wife, Cindy. |
| | Date Posted: May 7, 2008 |
A trip designed to revitalize Catholics in America, the
Pope’s recent visit was a tightly scripted event with few surprises. But one
unexpected development, his surprise meeting with survivors of clergy sexual
abuse, helped turn that issue into the most heavily covered aspect of the trip.
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| | Date Posted: April 30, 2008 |
The April 20 New York Times story on television’s use of
military analysts who were parroting Pentagon talking points on the Iraq war
seemed like a story destined to make an impact. Yet, an examination of a week’s
worth of coverage by the PEJ’s News Coverage Index found the media equivalent
of a collective yawn—only two follow-ups in the mainstream press.
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| | Source: PEJ News Coverage Index, Date Posted: March 25, 2008 |
Coverage of the Iraq war has decreased dramatically since President Bush announced the troop surge in January 2007. For the first three months of 2007, coverage of the war accounted for 23% of the overall newshole. One year later—from Jan. 1 through March 20 of 2008—the conflict generated only about one-sixth as much media attention.
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| | Source: Nielsen Media Research, used under license, Date Posted: January 6, 2008 | | Monthly audience figures for cable news audiences during the day |
| | Source: Nielsen Media Research, used under license, Date Posted: January 6, 2008 | | Monthly audience figures for cable news viewers at prime time |
| | Source: Veronis Suhler Stevenson, Date Posted: January 2, 2008 | | The bounty from political advertising is expected to set a new record in the current election cycle. And even with news consumers migrating to new media outlets, the overwhelming majority of those dollars will end up in the coffers of an “old media” platform.
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| | Date Posted: November 8, 2007 | | The decades-long pattern of declining daily circulation was reaffirmed with the release of the ABC’s newest circulation numbers. But the Nov. 5 report also included a new readership metric —“net combined audience”— that painted a much brighter picture. |
| | Source: Publisher's Information Bureau, Date Posted: October 18, 2007 |
September numbers from the magazine business find that the ad page slump in the big newsweeklies continues in 2007. But looking more closely reveals some real winners and some disappointed losers in a diverse medium.
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| | Source: 2006 Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Graduates, Date Posted: August 16, 2007 | | After a couple of years of bullish news, the new annual survey of 2006 journalism and communication graduates finds the job market leveling off. Still, despite sobering data on benefits and salaries as well, many of those choosing a career in an industry in turmoil seem pretty happy.
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