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.
| | Source: PEJ research, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 |
The staffs of Time and Newsweek have shrunk fairly steadily since the 1980s.
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| | Source: PEJ research, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 |
While they have cut back on bureaus and full time staffers, news magazines increased the number of part time contributors. In 2005, however, Time began to cut back here, too.
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| | Source: PEJ research, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 |
Time and Newsweek have cut back on the number of bureau reporters since the 1980s.
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| | Source: BIAfn Media Access Pro, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 | | How many local TV stations do the top companies own? Trends from 1995 to 2005 |
| | Source: Editor and Publisher Yearbook data, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 | | While the total number of newspapers has declined most of that was due to the death of evening papers. Until recently, the number of Sunday editions was rising, and the number of morning papers continues to do so. |
| | Source: Editor and Publisher 2006 Yearbook data, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 | | Morning weekday newspapers are making small gains, while evening weekday newspapers are in decline, resulting in a slight net loss in the number of U.S. daily newspapers. |
| | Source: 2006 RTNDA/Ball State University Survey, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 | | Platforms that utilized local TV news content in 2005, by market size |
| | Source: Advertising Age, ‘‘100 Leading Media Companies list’’; PEJ research, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 | The most popular online news sites remain very much a mirror image of other news industries in which a relatively small handful of media conglomerates own a large majority of news outlets. |
| | Source: Editor and Publisher Yearbook; PEJ Research, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 | | The 21 biggest newspaper companies, by revenue, controlled nearly 70% of the newspaper circulation in the United States in 2005. |
| | Source: Editor and Publisher Yearbook; PEJ Research, Date Posted: March 12, 2007 | | The 21 biggest companies by revenue owned roughly 40% of the newspapers in the country in 2005 but accounted for roughly 70% of the circulation. |
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