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: Nielsen/NetRatings data as reported by Cyberjournalist.net which is published by The Media Center at the American Press Institute., Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | | 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. |
| | Source: Nielsen/NetRatings data as reported by Cyberjournalist.net which is published by The Media Center at the American Press Institute., Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | | 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. |
| | Source: Nielsen/NetRatings data as reported by Cyberjournalist.net, which is published by The Media Center at the American Press Institute., Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | | 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. |
| | Source: Nielsen/NetRatings data , Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | 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. |
| | Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | | 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 ... |
| | Source: PEJ Research, Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | | The New York became a more topical magazine between 1989 and 2004. |
| | Source: Editor and Publisher Yearbook data; U.S. Census Bureau, Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | | 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. |
| | Source: Nielsen/Net Ratings , Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | 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.
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| | Source: Arbitron ’Radio Today’ annual report, Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | | 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. |
| | Source: New California Media Poll, The Ethnic Media in America: The Giant Hidden in Plain Sight, Date Posted: March 13, 2006 | | 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. |
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