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: August 14, 2011 | | Economic coverage once again dominated the news last week, and this time the focus was on the volatility of the stock market. And with Iowa in the spotlight, the 2012 presidential election re-emerged in the media narrative after several weeks of being buried by bad economic news.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: August 6, 2011 | |
The
long-awaited debt ceiling deal in Washington triggered a torrent of overwhelmingly
negative economic coverage that easily proved to be the dominant story of the
week. And two major newsmakers earlier in the year, al Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden and Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifffords, re-emerged in the headlines last
week.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: July 30, 2011 | |
After building for more than a month, the
Beltway Battle over the debt ceiling exploded as a story last week, accounting
for more than half of the newshole. No other story even generated double digit
coverage in a week dominated by a single subject.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: July 23, 2011 | |
The growing News of the World scandal drew
increased media attention last week, but not enough to stanch interest in the
debt deliberations in Washington, which have fueled the top story for five
weeks running. A record-breaking heat wave, the end of an era at NASA and a
relatively quiet presidential campaign also ranked among the top stories last
week.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: July 17, 2011 | | Coverage of the economy ballooned last week with the high stakes political skirmishing over the deficit and debt limit, while on the other side of the Atlantic the scandal enveloping Rupert Murdoch’s media empire generated a significant increase in media attention in the U.S.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: July 10, 2011 | |
Coverage of the U.S. economy led the news agenda for the third week in a row, thanks to some
drama in the deficit talks. The unexpected conclusion to a high profile trial generated
plenty of press attention while a major British media scandal made its way
across the Atlantic.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: July 4, 2011 | | The stalemate over deficit reduction and the entry of another candidate into the crowded 2012 presidential race made the economy and election the two leading stories last week. Meanwhile media attention to Afghanistan fell dramatically, highlighting the episodic and uneven coverage of that decade-old conflict.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 25, 2011 | | Though the economy topped the mainstream news agenda, Obama’s troop drawdown announcement gave Afghanistan its biggest week of coverage in a year. And while mainstay subjects—the campaign and the Mid-East—continued to make news, the surprise arrest of one of the FBI’s most wanted dominated the end of the week.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 18, 2011 | |
The
2012 campaign was the top story last week as Republican hopefuls met in a New
Hampshire debate that produced some media winners and losers. Worries about the
economy were a close No. 2. And three weeks after the initial scandal broke,
Anthony Weiner’s resignation was major news.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: June 13, 2011 | | The media were riveted last week by a made-for-headlines scandal involving one of the more combative members of Congress. The U.S. economy, the chaos in the Mideast and the emerging presidential race also generated significant attention, but they could not rival a story about the intersection of sex and politics.
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