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| | Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2004: How Online Campaign Coverage Has Changed in Four Years", Date Posted: February 5, 2004 | | The candidates themselves were the sources readers were most likely to hear from in the campaign stories on news websites during the primary season in 2004. |
| | Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2004: How Online Campaign Coverage Has Changed in Four Years", Date Posted: February 5, 2004 | | A straight news account of the day’s events was the dominant frame of lead stories on news websites during the primary season in 2004 but what the candidates thought about policy and issues was negligible as a focus. |
| | Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2004: How Online Campaign Coverage Has Changed in Four Years", Date Posted: February 5, 2004 | The 2004 election was well covered by the online news media, with the majority of stories have seven or more sources. |
| | Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2004: How Online Campaign Coverage Has Changed in Four Years", Date Posted: February 5, 2004 | The political front pages of news websites tended to feature 10 to 20 stories at a time in 2004, far more than could be available in a newspaper.
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| | Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2004: How Online Campaign Coverage Has Changed in Four Years", Date Posted: February 5, 2004 | | Overall, six in ten of the election stories on news websites studied during the presidential primary season in 2004 were original reporting. |
| | Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2004: How Online Campaign Coverage Has Changed in Four Years", Date Posted: February 5, 2004 | | A variety of topics dominated the lead stories of election news websites in 2004, but candidate performance on the stump and the battle ahead stood apart. |
| | Source: PEJ, "ePolitics 2004: How Online Campaign Coverage Has Changed in Four Years", Date Posted: February 5, 2004 | | Factors such as the candidates and election results—not issues of the press’ own design-- tended the trigger the campaign stories on news websites during the primary season in 2004. |
| | Source: PEJ, "Does Ownership Matter in Local Television News?: A Five-Year Study of Ownership and Quality", Date Posted: April 29, 2003 | | Local TV stations that were owned by the same company as a newspaper or radio station in town were more likely than other stations to have declining ratings trends of TV stations studied between 1998 and 2002. |
| | Source: PEJ, "Does Ownership Matter in Local Television News?: A Five-Year Study of Ownership and Quality", Date Posted: April 29, 2003 | | The study found no pattern correlating the level of local topics in local TV news stories and local ownership. |
| | Source: PEJ, "Does Ownership Matter in Local Television News?: A Five-Year Study of Ownership and Quality", Date Posted: April 29, 2003 | | Locally owned TV stations were not more likely to produce higher quality newscasts than non-local owners in a PEJ five year examination of local news. |
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