---
title: "Presidential Race Remains Top Story"
description: "The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a full Weekly News Index report for December 23-28, 2007. PEJ is, however, making the data available."
date: "2007-12-29"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2007/12/29/pej-nci-december-2328-2007/"
---

# Presidential Race Remains Top Story

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publishing a full Weekly News Index report for November 22-28, 2007. PEJ is, however, making the data available.

View the week's [Top Ten Story List](/tables_top_ten_story_data_december_2328_2007)

## Top Ten Story Data, December 23-28, 2007

### Overall (All 5 Sectors)

| Rank | Story | Percent of Newshole |
| --- | --- | --- |

| 1 | 2008 Presidential Bids | 24% |

| 2 | Pakistan | 18 |

| 3 | Holiday Season | 8 |

| 4 | Iraq War - Events on the Ground | 6 |

| 5 | Tiger Escapes SF Zoo | 5 |

| 6 | US Economic Numbers | 4 |

| 7 | Iraq War - Homefront | 2 |

| 8 | Midwest Snowstorm | 1 |

| 9 | Immigration | 1 |

### Newspapers

| Rank | Story | Percent of Newshole |
| --- | --- | --- |

| 1 | 2008 Presidential Bids  | 17% |

| 2 | Pakistan | 11 |

| 3 | Holiday Season | 8 |

| 4 | US Economic Numbers | 7 |

| 5 | Iraq War - Events on the Ground | 7 |

| 6 | Iraq War - Homefront | 4 |

| 7 | Immigration | 3 |

| 8 | Health Care Debate | 3 |

| 9 | Minneapolis Bridge Collapse | 2 |

### Online

| Rank | Story | Percent of Newshole |
| --- | --- | --- |

| 1 | 2008 Presidential Bids | 16% |

| 2 | Pakistan | 15 |

| 3 | Iraq War - Events on the Ground | 11 |

| 4 | Tiger Escapes SF Zoo | 10 |

| 5 | Holiday Season | 8 |

| 6 | US Economic Numbers | 6 |

| 7 | Midwest Snowstorm | 4 |

| 8 | WA Xmas Eve Murders | 3 |

| 9 | Panama Plane Crash | 3 |

### Network TV

| Rank | Story | Percent of Newshole |
| --- | --- | --- |

| 1 | 2008 Presidential Bids | 20% |

| 2 | Pakistan | 19 |

| 3 | Holiday Season | 13 |

| 4 | Tiger Escapes SF Zoo | 8 |

| 5 | Iraq War - Events on the Ground | 5 |

| 6 | US Economic Numbers | 4 |

| 7 | Panama Plane Crash | 2 |

| 8 | Midwest Snowstorm | 2 |

| 9 | Global Warming | 2 |

### Cable TV

| Rank | Story | Percent of Newshole |
| --- | --- | --- |

| 1 | 2008 Presidential Bids | 42% |

| 2 | Pakistan | 25 |

| 3 | Tiger Escapes SF Zoo | 7 |

| 4 | Holiday Season | 3 |

| 5 | Iraq War - Events on the Ground | 2 |

| 6 | Panama Plane Crash | 1 |

| 7 | Immigration | 1 |

| 8 | Iraq War - Homefront | 1 |

| 9 | Missing Girl in Portugal | 1 |

### Radio

| Rank | Story | Percent of Newshole |
| --- | --- | --- |

| 1 | 2008 Presidential Bids | 19% |

| 2 | Pakistan | 19 |

| 3 | Holiday Season | 7 |

| 4 | Iraq War - Events on the Ground | 6 |

| 5 | Global Warming | 4 |

| 6 | Iran | 4 |

| 7 | Iraq War - Policy Debate | 3 |

| 8 | Tiger Escapes SF Zoo | 3 |

| 9 | US Economic Numbers | 2 |