Journalism

reportMar 15, 2012

Who Owns the Media

An interactive database of companies that own news properties in the United States. Use the site to compare the companies, explore each media sector or read profiles of individual companies.
reportMar 12, 2012

Super Tuesday Gives Election Big Week

The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. However, the data is available.
reportMar 8, 2012

Breitbart Remembered Fondly by Most on Social Media

In social media, praise easily outweighed the criticism of controversial blogger and conservative political activist Andrew Breitbart after his passing late last week.
reportMar 5, 2012

The Search for a New Business Model

How close are America’s beleaguered newspapers to solving their revenue problems? A new report from PEJ that includes detailed case studies of dozens of daily papers and interviews with newspaper company executives finds an industry struggling to reinvent itself, but also some hopeful success stories.
reportMar 4, 2012

Election Leads as Super Tuesday Nears

The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. However, the data is available.
reportMar 1, 2012

Bloggers Debate Global Warming and Scientific Ethics

In the blogosphere last week, scientist Peter Gleick’s admission that he used a false identity to obtain global warming-related documents topped the news.
reportFeb 28, 2012

Presidential Election Tops the News as Key Primaries Approach

The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. However, the data is available.
reportFeb 24, 2012

Blogs and Twitter Make the Grammys—and Chris Brown—the No. 1 Topic

One particular performer at the February 12 Grammy ceremonies triggered a torrent of conversation in the social media last week. And much of that discussion included anger directed the awards, the singer and even some of his fans.
reportFeb 23, 2012

Religion in the News

The biggest religion stories during 2011 centered on tensions over Islam and the U.S. presidential campaign, with more than half of the politically-focused coverage involving Republican hopeful Mitt Romney and his Mormon faith, according to a new study.
reportFeb 22, 2012

In Busy News Week, Economy Leads

The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. However, the data is available.