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.

  • Range of Viewpoints in Stories with Conflict

    In their war against new youth and tabloid competitors, old fashioned broadsheets still tend to give more sides in stories about controversy.

  • Story Length According to Newspaper Format

    In their war against new youth and tabloid competitors, old fashioned broadsheets have the advantage, or is a disadvantage, of running longer stories.

  • Story Topic According to Newspaper Format

    The biggest difference in the topics among different kinds of newspapers is that the youth oriented tabloids carried more entertainment and celebrity news.

  • Youth Impact According to Newspaper Format

    Youth oriented tabloids were no more likely than old fashioned broadsheets to carry stories that specifically impacted the young.

  • Main Characters in Sports Front Stories

    The main focus of sport stories seems evenly distributed between teams and the individual athletes
  • Story Triggers in Sports Reporting

    Men continue to outnumber women as sources in the news media by more than two to one, and this was true across media. The lone exception was network morning news. 

  • Topics in Sports Stories

    Three sports continue to dominate the sports pages of America’s newspapers, basketball, baseball and football. 

  • Appearance of Female and Male Sources

    Men continue to outnumber women as sources in the news media by more than two to one, and this was true across media. The lone exception was network morning news.

  • Gender of Sources in Cable News Stories

    All three cable news channels source rely on men as sources far more often than they do women.

  • Gender of Sources in Newspaper Stories

    Whether the story is written by staff, picked up from the wires or a combination of both - more men are sourced than women