September 8, 2008
"MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts From Anchor Seat"
Brian Stelter, New York Times, September 8, 2008

"Chris & Keith 'Left' Out at MSNBC"
Richard Johnson, New York Post, September 8, 2008
"Palin to Give Interview to ABC This Week"
Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post, September 8, 2008
"ABC News' Gibson lands first Sarah Palin interview"
David Bauder, Associated Press, September 7, 2008
"The New Talking Heads, by Way of the West Wing"
Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post, September 8, 2008
"The 'Online Campaign' -- Election 2.008 -- Rolls On"
Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher, September 6, 2008
"Google: From start-up to superpower"
Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2008
"Advertisers say Google-Yahoo deal would stifle competition, possibly raise prices"
Associated Press, September 8, 2008
"Print Journalism Squeeze Hits Campuses"
Jack Stripling, Inside Higher Education , September 8, 2008
 

Today's Lead

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Convention Buzz Detector -- Republicans Day 4

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 examine the final night of the Republican National Convention.

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Big Events Eclipse the Issues

The veepstakes and convention time have commanded much of the media’s attention in recent days. With so much focus on the horserace and party pageantry, which campaign topics fell by the wayside?

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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?

Also Worth Noting
2007 News Coverage Index Data Available
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.
PEJ’s State of the News Media 2008
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.
A New Updated Edition of the Elements of Journalism
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.