News Index: Our Weekly Content Analysis
This section contains the complete archive of all the PEJ News Coverage Indexes. They are published below in chronological order, but our archive is also searchable. Use the key word search on the left to find reports about specific news events.
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 25, 2010 | | The media’s attention was divided between Port au Prince and Massachusetts last week, and the two stories highlighted significant differences in editorial priorities, particularly in the cable news universe. Meanwhile, Barack Obama’s one-year anniversary as President triggered a wave of evaluations that tended toward the bearish.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 18, 2010 | | The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not issue a News Index
report this week, but the data is available.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 11, 2010 | | With the White House producing a post-mortem on what went wrong, the Christmas bombing plot led the news agenda last week. And it was joined by a number of related terrorism topics in the news, harkening back to the days of nervous post 9/11 headlines.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 4, 2010 | | This week’s News Coverage Index examines the agenda in one media sector—daily newspapers. And it reveals that the unanswered questions about the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner were still dominating coverage a week after the event occurred. Meanwhile, the state of the economy was the week’s second-biggest topic.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 28, 2009 | | The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not issue a News Index report this week, but the data is available.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 22, 2009 | | Due to inclement weather, the Pew Research Center's Project for
Excellence in Journalism is not publishing a full Weekly News Index
report for December 14 - 20. PEJ is, however, making the data
available.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 14, 2009 | |
The economy and health care continued to lead the news last week as they have so often in recent months. But global warming, thanks in part to a controversy over emails, received a record level of coverage.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 7, 2009 | |
The President’s long-awaited decision on how to
wage war in Afghanistan was the No. 1 story last week, surpassing coverage of
the two big domestic issues—the economy and health care. But a scandal-scorched
athlete and some White House party crashers found their way into the top
stories as well.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 30, 2009 | | The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not issue a News Index report this week, but the data is available.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 23, 2009 | | A Senate health care bill, new jobless numbers, a recommendation on breast cancer screening, and a presidential visit to China made the roster of top stories in a crowded news week. But perhaps no subject stirred as much media sturm and drang as Sarah Palin’s high-profile book tour.
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