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title: "Overall Coverage of Hispanics in the News"
description: "For both Muslims and Asians, nine out of ten stories involved events abroad.  By contrast, Hispanics were much more of an American story—58% of the coverage with significant references to Hispanics involved domestic news. Likewise, about two-thirds (65%), of the coverage of Africans and/or African-Americans involved domestic news. FOOTNOTES: 1. The Asian/Asian-American group was understood […]"
date: "2009-12-07"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media staff"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2009/12/07/overall-coverage-hispanics-news/"
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# Overall Coverage of Hispanics in the News

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For both Muslims and Asians, nine out of ten stories involved events abroad. By contrast, Hispanics were much more of an American story—58% of the coverage with significant references to Hispanics involved domestic news. Likewise, about two-thirds (65%), of the coverage of Africans and/or African-Americans involved domestic news.

![](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/legacy/u29/demogrph_overall.png)

![](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/legacy/u36/demog_us_only.png)

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**FOOTNOTES:**

[]1. The Asian/Asian-American group was understood as encompassing people or groups from most eastern and south Asian countries, as well as anyone noted as Asian, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, or Hawaiian.

[]2. The African/African-American group included people or groups from any African country except Egypt, as well as those noted as African, African-American, or Black.

[]3. The Muslim group included anyone noted as Muslim, Islamist, as well as belonging to Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other groups with strong Muslim identities.

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