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title: "Differences between Newspapers and Radio, TV and Websites"
description: "While just 1% of all the election coverage studied was squarely about religion, in the 2012 campaign PEJ also analyzed the number of stories that mentioned religion, even in passing. By that measure, 6% of campaign stories in 2012 contained at least some reference to religion. (Because this was a new measure, no comparable figure […]"
date: "2012-12-14"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media staff"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2012/12/14/differences-between-newspapers-and-radio-tv-and-websites/"
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# Differences between Newspapers and Radio, TV and Websites

While just 1% of all the election coverage studied was squarely about religion, in the 2012 campaign PEJ also analyzed the number of stories that mentioned religion, even in passing. By that measure, 6% of campaign stories in 2012 contained at least some reference to religion. (Because this was a new measure, no comparable figure is available for 2008.)

Overall, most sectors of the mainstream media - broadcast television, cable television, radio and major news websites - all mentioned religion in about the same proportion of 2012 campaign stories (5% to 8%). The one exception was newspaper front pages, where the percentage was at least twice as high: Fully 16% of front-page newspaper stories about the campaign contained at least a passing reference to religion.

![](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/legacy/u29/3-attention_by_sector.png)

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