CCJ Research

CCJ Founding Chairman Bill Kovach highlights the significance of former partner PEJ's News Coverage Index for journalists looking to challenge and improve journalism.

Economists at the Univ. of Chicago found that the main driver of ideological slants in U.S. newspaper coverage is their audiences' political ideologies, not the views of owners or newspaper staff.

A presentation from University of Missouri School of Journalism professors Esther Thorson and Margaret E. Duffy on using an academic theory on how people choose media as a guide for growing newspaper audiences.

CCJ partner organization PEJ (Project for Excellence in Journalism) outlines the controversy surrounding Wikipedia, brought on by a fabricated biography written about retired journalist and CCJ member John L. Seigenthaler, Sr.

CCJ members' verbatim responses to the question, "If you were asked to name one thing that stands out in coverage of the presidential election this year, positively or negatively, what would it be?"

David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register shares what he believes will be the big issues for journalists in the 2004 presidential election.

In 1999, CCJ and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press jointly produced a national survey of the news media. The survey reveals that journalists are becoming far more critical of their profession.

Washington summer gossip included a rumor that Lewinsky had used a cigar as a sex toy while with the President. In general, despite some references, it is fair to say the press resisted spreading such rumors.

From the earliest days of the story, reports were widely published both that there were third party witnesses who had observed Clinton and Lewinsky in acts of intimacy, or, somewhat more cautiously, that Starr was reaching out to such potential eyewitnesses.