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.
| | Date Posted: December 21, 2010 | | Christine O’Donnell, Shirley Sherrod, and Elena Kagan jumped from near obscurity to household names in 2010. What other famous females were there this past year? The Project for Excellence in Journalism looks back at all the top ten women newsmakers of 2010.
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| | Date Posted: December 8, 2010 | | Recently censured Congressman Charles Rangel may have been the latest politician to generate headlines about corruption, infidelity or various misdeeds. But in terms of media attention, his ethics case was somewhat down the list of top scandal stories. A PEJ analysis reveals which other officials made that roster
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| | Date Posted: December 1, 2010 | | Airport security generated a significant amount of attention as travel ramped up this November—much of it focused on the full body scans and new pat down procedures. But with a few exceptions, air travel safety procedures have not generated much coverage in the past few years. When else has the TSA made news?
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| | Date Posted: November 24, 2010 | | In a week in which the blogosphere also reacted to a number of Beltway-based stories, the top subject was one mainstream media stalwart’s assessment of the current state of the news industry. How much and what kind of a response did Ted Koppel’s recent column generate?
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| | Date Posted: November 18, 2010 | | George W. Bush recently made headlines thanks to the release of his memoir, Decision Points, and the accompanying media tour. But several other books about his administration have drawn even more media attention. How does the coverage of Decision Points stack up with other book releases that made significant news in the past few years?
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| | Date Posted: November 11, 2010 | | The recently uncovered Yemen- based attempt to launch an attack aimed at the U.S. homeland made its share of headlines in recent weeks. But in terms of coverage, it still ranks well below some other terror episodes in the past three years. PEJ looks at which of these stories have generated the most attention in the mainstream media.
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| | Date Posted: November 2, 2010 | | Whether the 2010 congressional elections prove to be a referendum on him or not, Barack Obama has been the top newsmaker in this election cycle. But a PEJ look at the other top politicians reveals a strong showing by tea party candidates and a fascination with a heated gubernatorial fight.
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| | Date Posted: October 27, 2010 | | NPR’s controversial firing of analyst Juan Williams became a media boomlet last week generating commentary from many quarters. How big a story was it compared with other media stories that have made big news in recent years? PEJ looks at the list of top newsmakers from the news industry since January 2007.
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| | Date Posted: October 6, 2010 | | When technology generates headlines in the mainstream press—and it’s not all that often—what storylines drive that coverage? A recent PEJ report examined a year’s worth of tech stories and found a mix of domestic and global events at the top of the list. And some of them focused on the products of one high-tech powerhouse.
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| | Date Posted: September 29, 2010 | | The unsuccessful effort last week to repeal the military’s ban against openly gay men and women put the subject of gay rights into the headlines. That doesn’t happen all that often, according to a PEJ examination of coverage in the past three years. But what subjects dominate when the debate over gay rights does generate substantial media attention?
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