Analysis: Our Studies, Commentaries and Backgrounders

This section, Analysis, is the complete archive of all the research studies, commentaries, background reports, articles, or speeches PEJ has published. They are listed below in chronological order, but our archive is also searchable. Use the menus on the left to filter the contents and find exactly what you want.
  • 2007 State of the News Media Report - Cable TV

    The Cable TV chapter from the fourth edition of the Project’s Annual State of the News Media report

  • 2007 State of the News Media Report - Digital Journalism

    The topography of news websites from the fourth edition of the Project’s Annual State of the News Media report

  • 2007 State of the News Media Report - Local TV

    The Local TV chapter from the fourth edition of the Project’s Annual State of the News Media report

  • 2007 State of the News Media Report - Newspapers

    The Newspaper chapter from the fourth edition of the Project’s Annual State of the News Media report.

  • 2007 State of the News Media Report - Online

    The Newspaper chapter from the fourth edition of the Project’s Annual State of the News Media report.

  • 2007 State of the News Media Report - Radio

    The Radio chapter from the fourth edition of the Project’s Annual State of the News Media report.

  • The Media’s Verdict on the Libby Trial

    The jury has spoken in the perjury and obstruction trial of Scooter Libby that so intimately involved the journalism profession itself. We know the Vice President’s former top aide was found guilty. But who or what else did the media implicate in its post-verdict coverage?

  • Hands Off The High School Paper

    Student journalists and school personnel have been known to clash on occasion over what news is fit to print. Now precedent-setting legislation wending its way through the Washington State House is intended to give students more control over and responsibility for the content of the school publication.
  • The “News and Schmooze” Explosion

    A new study finds a proliferation of “citizen media” web sites that fit somewhere on the media spectrum between the street-corner soapbox and the local daily newspaper. While concluding that these grassroots outlets are successful at creating community conversations, the report on this emerging landscape also reveals that many are tenuous, shoestring operations.

  • A Rough Year for News Magazines

    If Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report were hoping that 2006 would offset poor advertising numbers in 2005, they will be disappointed. The year-end figures are now in and they show that the number of ad pages at the three big newsmagazines barely inched up. The magazine industry generally, indeed, is suffering something of a malaise.