August 27, 2008
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David Bauder, Associated Press, August 26, 2008
William Triplett, Variety, August 26, 2008
Marisa Guthrie, Broadcasting and Cable, August 26, 2008
Clint Hendler , Columbia Journalism Review, August 26, 2008
Jack Shafer, Slate, August 26, 2008
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, August 27, 2008
Associated Press, Editor and Publisher, August 27, 2008
Stephen Brook, The Guardian, August 27, 2008
 
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Convention Buzz Detector -- Democrats Day 2

How is the online universe responding to the two national nominating conventions? A daily PEJ snapshot of five online destinations during the conventions will attempt to gauge what events and storylines are generating interest and attention. Today, we monitor reaction after Hillary Clinton’s big speech.

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Betting on Biden

After days of intense speculation by the press, Barack Obama introduced his running mate on Aug. 23. Was that choice a surprise? Or did the media prognosticators and pundits have it figured out?

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The Media's Olympics

The Beijing Olympics gave the media an opportunity to report on the athletic competition and life inside the world’s most populous nation. So exactly what—and who—got covered in the U.S. press? Who did most of the covering? And how did the story differ in different nations? A new PEJ study examines these questions.

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It’s All Veepstakes All the Time: August 18 - 24, 2008

The critical policy issues, and almost every other element of the campaign, took a back seat to the vice-presidential selection process last week. The only other story to really break through was a flap that arose after John McCain had trouble keeping track of his real estate.

Also Worth Noting
PEJ's News Coverage Index captures and analyzes some four dozen news outlets in real time to determine what stories the national news media is covering. The 2007 raw data is now available online; it totals 70,737 stories, and is offered in SPSS through the use of zip files along with the coding scheme.
The fifth annual State of the News Media 2008 includes a Survey of Journalists, a Year in the News, a look at the Future of Advertising, an analysis of Citizen Media sites, and more. It also analyzes the major trends in the eight main sectors of media.
The latest edition of Elements is completely updated and includes a new 10th principle--the rights and responsibilities of citizens--flowing from new power conveyed by technology to citizens as consumers and editors of their own news and information.