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.

  • Male and Female Sources in the News

    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. 

  • Topic Coverage and Gender of Sources

    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. 
  • Geographic Focus of Stories in El Diario: 2004

    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.
  • Geographic Focus of Stories in Hoy: 2004

    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.
  • Geographic Focus of Stories in Pakistan Post: 2004

    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).
  • Geographic Focus of Stories in Sing Tao: 2004

    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.

  • Growth of Bloggers and Blog Readers in 2004

    In November 2004, seven million people reported writing personal weblogs, and 27 million reported reading them.  

  • Media Preferred for Election and Voting Information, Various Ethnicities:2004

    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.

  • Media Users Seeing Political Bias: 2004

    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.

  • Number of Magazines by Select Genres, 1980-2004

    Popular culture and entertainment magazines are now more numerous than business or news publications.