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: June 29, 2009 | | Even by midweek, the media had begun to shift focus from protests in Iran to a political sex scandal in South Carolina. But all that was before the death of the best-selling recording artist whose troubled life and pioneering music made him an icon. By the time the week ended, focus on Michael Jackson’s passing overwhelmed all other media stories.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 22, 2009 | | The intensifying protests and political ferment inside Iran eclipsed some major domestic stories in the U.S. news agenda last week. And as the mainstream press confronted daunting restrictions on coverage, an outpouring of social media reports—but not all from Twitter—helped drive the Iran narrative.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 15, 2009 | |
The economy, a hate crime, health care and Detroit’s problems all competed
for attention in last week’s news landscape. But a presidential vote in Iran commanded
much of the late-week coverage, as the press focused on a nation it often tends
to ignore.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 8, 2009 | | Several big events vied for the attention of the media last week. But for the second time in two months, a major overseas presidential foray topped the news agenda when it demonstrated Barack Obama’s dramatically different approach to foreign policy.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 1, 2009 | | Even as many observers predicted Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would win confirmation, the first days of coverage were defined by harsh rhetoric and ideological combat. It was another example of the media’s enduring affinity for the conflict frame of news.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 26, 2009 | |
In the last several weeks, terrorism has topped
the news agenda more often than the economic crisis. As last week’s dueling
Cheney-Obama speeches showed, that’s what happens when a hot-button topic
becomes the Beltway’s primary political fault line.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 18, 2009 | |
As attention to the economy dropped, the
nation’s anti-terrorism policies dominated the news agenda for the second time
in the past month. Since the release of the interrogation memos, coverage of this topic has jumped dramatically.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 11, 2009 | | A financial report card for U.S. banks returned the economic crisis to the top of the news agenda last week while the fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan also became a major story.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 4, 2009 | | A story that suddenly emerged from nowhere, the threat of a global influenza pandemic, sent the media into overdrive last week. The flu scare knocked a number of significant events out of the headlines and by week’s end, began to spawn a backlash.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: April 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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