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.

  • Language Preferred for the Internet, Various Ethnicities

    Unlike television and print, online major immigrant populations prefer English as the primary language.

  • Network vs. Local TV News Consumption: 1993-2004

    Although they have both lost audience, network news has more of its audience since 1993 than has local news. One factor is that local TV has expanded dramatically the number of hours it broadcasts, particularly in the morning. 

  • Topics Covered by Amsterdam News: 2004

    The front page of the Amsterdam News was heavy with domestic affiars and politics in 2004.
  • Topics Covered by Sing Tao: 2004

    Home region coverage made up the largest chunk of the front-page coverage in Sing Tao that PEJ examined in 2004.
  • Topics Covered in El Diario: 2004

    El Diario had the most diverse spread of topics covered on its front page in the period PEJ examined in 2004.
  • Topics Covered in Hoy: 2004

    More than half of the stories on the Hoy front page in the time PEJ studied in 2004 were focused on domestic affairs.
  • Topics Covered in Pakistan Post: 2004

    The Pakistan Post front page focused the least on U.S. politics and government out of the five ethnic papers PEJ studied.
  • Dominant Frame in Candidate-Focused Newspaper Stories

    Newspapers framed stories that focused on Bush in the debates on how they affected his standing in the horse race. Stories about Kerry were just as likely, in contrast, to be straight forward news accounts of what was said.

  • How Network News Framed the Campaign

    On network news, how the debates might impact the horse race overwhelmed any other theme coming out of the event.

  • How Newspapers Framed the Race

    In print, the impact of the debates on the horse race was still a dominant theme, but regional papers were more likely to simply report what the candidates said than national papers were, and other themes got more attention than they did on television.