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.

  • Time Spent on Top 10 Online News Sites, 2004

    The amount of time people spend on news websites varies widely by the destination. Visitors spend a great deal more time on local Gannet newspaper websites, for instance, than they do on the company’s USA Today news site.

  • Time Spent on Top Newspaper Online Sites: 2004

    Among newspaper web sites, people spend a good deal more time when they visit the New York Times and Washington Post sites than they do most other newspaper sites.

  • Time Spent on Top Television Online Sites: 2004

    The amount of time people spend on TV news websites varies markedly depending on which site they are visiting. CNN and Fox dueled for the top online destination among television websites.

  • Top News Web Site: 2005

    The top news websites are dominated by the big traditional media brands, according to date from Nielsen/Net Ratings. But even among these four dominate, Yahoo, CNN, MSNBC and AOL, two television-based and two Internet-only aggregator sites.

  • Top Online News Sites (Nielsen): 2004 vs. 2005

    Different web analysts see the top news sites differently. Nielsen had Yahoo! rising from second to first in 2005, with MSNBC a close second. Beginning with Sept. 2004 data, Nielsen//NetRatings--to increase accuracy--has improved its NetView home panel sample weighting methodology by updating projec ...
  • Topicality of New Yorker Stories: 1989 - 2004

    The New York became a more topical magazine between 1989 and 2004.
  • U.S. Daily Newspaper Circulation Versus Number of Households: 1940-2000, 2003 and 2004

    The percentage of U.S. households buying a newspaper has been declining since the 1960s, about the time television news began to emerge in earnest.

  • Unique Visitors for Top 20 News and Information Sites

    In 2005, the total online audience for the top 20 news and information sites grew steadily until late summer. It then levelled off in the final quarter of the year.
  • What Radio Formats People Listen To: 2000 vs. 2004

    Taken together, more people seek out music on the radio, but news and talk and Spanish language are the two most important individual programming formats.

  • Where ethnic groups go for news on politics and government

    While they rely on their ethnic press for news about their home countries, ethnic groups depend more heavily on the mainstream press for news about U.S. politics and government.