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, "The Gender Gap", Date Posted: May 23, 2005 | | Roughly seven out of ten stories in the news media contained no female sources, while only 14% contained more than one. By contrast, nearly six in ten contained multiple male sources. |
| | Source: PEJ, "The Gender Gap", Date Posted: May 23, 2005 | | Lifestyle stories seem to be the only ones where women are sourced somewhat as much as men, and they are virtually non-existent in stories about foreign affairs or defense. |
| | Source: PEJ Research, Date Posted: March 15, 2005 | | More than 70% of the stories on the front-page of El Diario were focused on U.S.-based topics and the local geographic region in particular. |
| | Source: PEJ research, Date Posted: March 15, 2005 | More than 70% of the stories on the fraont page of Hoy were based on U.S.-topics with more than 40% focus on the local geopgraphic area.
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| | Source: PEJ research, Date Posted: March 15, 2005 | | Nearly half of the stories on the front page of the Pakistan Post were focused on topics from its readers' home region (Pakistan and and India). |
| | Source: PEJ research, Date Posted: March 15, 2005 | | Stories on the front page of Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao mostly came from China. But the daily's stories came from a fairly balanced range of locales. |
| | Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, "The State of Blogging", Date Posted: March 15, 2005 | | In November 2004, seven million people reported writing personal weblogs, and 27 million reported reading them. |
| | Source: New California Media/Bendixen & Associates, Date Posted: March 15, 2005 | People across ethnic groups report relying on local TV news as their primary medium for news about elections and voting, even though content studies show that the medium doesn’t tend to cover much local politics. |
| | Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, "Cable and Internet Loom Large in Fragmented Political News Universe", Date Posted: March 15, 2005 | | More than half of Americans in 2004 described Fox biased, and more than 40% saw most other news media as having a bias. The only exceptions were network and local TV news. |
| | Source: Publisher’s Information Bureau annual reports, Date Posted: March 15, 2005 | | Popular culture and entertainment magazines are now more numerous than business or news publications. |
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