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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.

  • Emphasis of Front Page Newspaper Stories, by Year

    Source: PEJ, "Changing Definitions of News", Date Posted: March 6, 1998
    Straight news declined sharply as the emphasis of newspaper front page stories between 1977 and 1997.

  • News Magazines' Cover Appeal by Year

    Source: PEJ, "Changing Definitions of News", Date Posted: March 6, 1998
    Traditional topics (Government, Military, Domestic Affairs and Foreign Affairs) lost space to Feature topics (Entertainment, Lifestyle, Celebrity Crime) in the news media between 1977 and 1997.

  • Straight News as a Percentage of Stories, by Medium

    Source: PEJ, Date Posted: March 6, 1998
    Traditional topics (Government, Military, Domestic Affairs and Foreign Affairs) lost space to Feature topics (Entertainment, Lifestyle, Celebrity Crime) in the news media between 1977 and 1997.

  • Subject of Stories by Year

    Source: PEJ, "Changing Definitions of News", Date Posted: March 6, 1998
    Traditional topics (Government, Military, Domestic Affairs and Foreign Affairs) lost space to Feature topics (Entertainment, Lifestyle, Celebrity Crime) in the news media between 1977 and 1997.

  • Subjects of Front Page Newspaper Stories, by Year

    Source: PEJ, "Changing Definitions of News", Date Posted: March 6, 1998
    Newspaper front pages grew less focused on Government and Foreign Affairs between 1977 and 1997, while they devoted more space to Domestic Affairs and Crime.

  • Attribution and Sourcing by News Genre

    Source: PEJ, "The Clinton Crisis and the Press", Date Posted: February 18, 1998
    Newspapers and Nightline did the best job of using named sources in their reportage curing the Clinton-Lewinsky saga. Nightly talk shows cited named sources the least.

  • Sources and Attribution for All Reporting

    Source: PEJ, "The Clinton Crisis and the Press", Date Posted: February 18, 1998
    Only 1% of all the stories PEJ examined during the Clinton-Lewinsky saga used two or more named sources. Stories featured only one anonymous source 8% of the time.

  • Sourcing of Top Allegations

    Source: PEJ, "The Clinton Crisis and the Press", Date Posted: February 18, 1998

    During the Lewinsky saga “named sources” were not widely used in attribution on key points. “Named sources” made up more than 50% of attribution only on the topic of President Clinton’s denials.

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