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 18, 2012 | | The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. But the data has been made available.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 8, 2012 | | The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. However, the data is available here.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: January 4, 2012 | | In the days before Iowans finally caucused, the news media were most focused on the shifting horse race that foreshadowed Rick Santorum’s strong late showing, according to a PEJ analysis of the leading themes in the Iowa press narrative.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 18, 2011 | | Attention to the Republican nomination fight increased last week with Iowa looming and Gingrich and Romney locked in campaign combat.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 11, 2011 | |
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GOP candidate has not only soared in the polls recently, he’s become the focal
point of news coverage as well. A presidential speech drove coverage of the
week’s No. 2 story, the economy.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: December 3, 2011 | |
Herman Cain was in the campaign spotlight one
final time last week, as he ended his presidential run in the wake of new
allegations. Some good news on both the domestic and foreign economic fronts fueled
coverage of the No. 2 and No. 3 stories.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 19, 2011 | | Tensions drove Occupy Wall Street
coverage to its biggest week so far and an interview with Jerry Sandusky ushered in a second week of major coverage of Penn State’s sexual abuse scandal.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 13, 2011 | |
With additional women coming forward with sexual
harassment allegations against Herman Cain, the 2012 presidential race was the
No. 1 story for the second week in a row.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: November 6, 2011 | | The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not issue a News Index report this week, but the data is still available. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: October 30, 2011 | |
After
a brief one-week absence, the U.S. economy re-emerged as the top story last
week.
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