{"id":89770,"date":"2010-07-26T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2010\/07\/26\/methodology-9-6\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:16:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:16:13","slug":"methodology-9-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2010\/07\/26\/methodology-9-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> This study by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social &amp; Demographic Trends<\/a> analyzed news coverage of African Americans during a 12-month time period, February 16, 2009 \u2013 February 15, 2010.\u00a0 The analysis is based on coding conducted as part of PEJ\u2019s weekly <a href=\"\/news_index\/99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News Coverage Index<\/a> (NCI). <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During this period, PEJ researchers coded 67,245 stories as part of the NCI.\u00a0 These stories span across five media sectors: newspapers, online, network TV, cable TV and radio.\u00a0 The universe of stories was coded by a team made up of 17 trained coders, a coding administrator and a senior research methodologist.<br> In addition to the main variables that are a regular part of the NCI, we added variables to track significant mentions of four separate demographic groups. We began coding for significant mentions of Hispanics, Africans and African Americans on February 9 and Asians on February 16, 2009. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> We also added a variable for significant mentions of President Obama\u2019s race.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To create the set of stories used for this study, we combined the stories coded for prominent mentions of African Americans with those coded prominent mentions of Obama\u2019s race.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We only looked at domestic stories for this study; we did not include stories coded as U.S. international or non-U.S. international. <\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;the-universe&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"the-universe\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" align=\"left\">The Universe <\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In 2009, PEJ monitored 55 different news outlets, and in 2010 PEJ monitors 53 different news outlets each week Monday\u2013Friday, and Sunday newspapers. The specific content collected is as follows: <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Newspapers: All stories on the front page with a national or international focus are captured and coded.<ul>\n<li>2009: A rotating group of seven out of 13 newspapers daily, ranging from the Kansas City Star and San Jose Mercury News to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, USA Today, Washington Post, and New York Times were coded.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>2010: A rotating group of five or six out of 11newspapers daily, ranging from the Ventura Star and The Day to the Seattle Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal are coded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Broadcast network television evening news shows:<ul>\n<li>2009: The entirety of ABC\u2019s World News Tonight, CBS\u2019s Evening News, and NBC\u2019s Nightly News are captured and coded every weekday. A half hour of every episode of PBS\u2019s Newshour with Jim Lehrer was captured and coded, with coding alternating between the first and the second half-hour of the show.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>2010: PEJ started rotating the broadcasts so that two out of the three commercial network news shows are coded every weekday. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Broadcast network television morning news shows: Every Monday to Friday the first 30 minutes of ABC\u2019s Good Morning America, CBS\u2019s Early Show, and NBC\u2019s Today show were captured and coded.<ul>\n<li>2010: PEJ started rotating the broadcasts so that two out of the three commercial network news shows are coded every weekday.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Daytime cable news: Every weekday, a half-hour of news from two of the following channels was recorded between 2-2:30 p.m. ET:\u00a0 CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evening cable news: Every weekday, the first half-hour of a rotating schedule of six news programs from CNN, Fox and MSNBC were recorded and coded, ranging from CNN\u2019s Situation Room and Anderson Cooper 360, to Fox News\u2019s O\u2019Reilly Factor and Special Report With Bret Baier to MSNBC\u2019s Hardball and Rachel Maddow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Radio news:\u00a0<ul>\n<li>2009: Twice a day (at 9 a.m. and again at 5 p.m. every Monday to Friday), all news headlines from ABC and CBS radio were captured and coded, as was a\u00a0 half-hour of NPR\u2019s Morning Edition, with coding alternating between the first half-hour of the first hour, and the first half-hour of the second hour.<\/li>\n<li>2010: PEJ was rotating the coding so that one set of 9 a.m. and one set of 5 p.m. headlines were coded every weekday. For NPR, PEJ now codes both Morning Edition and All Things Considered on NPR. On any given day, PEJ codes the first half-hour of either the first or second hour or one of these shows every weekday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Talk radio: Every day, the first half-hour of a rotating selection of two or three different talk shows was recorded and coded, ranging from Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage to Ed Schultz and Randi Rhodes.<ul>\n<li>2010: PEJ codes either one or two of the radio talk shows every weekday. The total sample includes Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Ed Schultz only.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Online news: Once a day (Monday to Friday), the top five stories on a rotating schedule of the following news sites were captured and coded: CNN.com, Yahoo News, MSNBC.com, Google News, FoxNews.com, USAToday.com, NYTimes.com, AOL News, WashingtonPost.com, ABCNews.com, BBC News (international version), and Reuters.com.<ul>\n<li>2010: PEJ replaced the BBC News and Reuters websites with WSJonline.com and HuffingtonPost.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For a methodology of our News Index, see here:<a href=\"\/about_news_index\/methodology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/about_news_index\/methodology. <\/a> <\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;tracking-demographic-groups&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"tracking-demographic-groups\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tracking Demographic Groups<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In order to track stories in which certain demographic groups had a significant presence, PEJ devised a comprehensive set of rules.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Significant Mention<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To be considered a significant part of the story, 25% of a story needed to be about that demographic group and their race\/ethnicity\/religion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The race\/ethnicity\/religion needed to be explicitly stated.\u00a0 If a person was pictured or named without his\/her race stated explicitly, that story was not coded.\u00a0 This rule applied even if one might assume\/guess their ethnicity from the picture or name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stories about foreign governments, businesses, etc. were not be coded unless they referred to how those governments\/business are affecting one of the groups of people below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A story could be about multiple demographic groups.\u00a0 For example: Asian and Hispanic could both be selected if the story was 25% or more about Asians and 25% or more about Hispanics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Any person, group or organization referred to using the term \u201cname of country + American\u201d or \u201cname of region + American\u201d were coded for this variable if they are 25% in the story.<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<em>For example<\/em>: Mexican American, Asian American, etc. would be coded if that person satisfied the 25% rule in the story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Any person, group or organization referred to by their nationality only was coded for this variable if they were 25% of the story.<ul>\n<li><em>For example<\/em>: A person or group referred to only as Peruvian, Kenyan, Chinese, etc. would be coded for that ethic\/demographic group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> From the greater universe of 67,245 stories, we culled down to a smaller group of 643 stories for this study that was made of only stories that were coded for African American presence, presence of Obama\u2019s race or both of these variables. <\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;african-african-american-presence-variable&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"african-african-american-presence-variable\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">African\/African American Presence Variable<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <em>Definition: <\/em>This applies to stories that are 25% or more about an African American\/African person, people or organization.\u00a0 Note: President Barak Obama is specifically excluded from this variable. Instead, African American angles of coverage about him are captured in a separate variable described below.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPECIFIC TERMS AND NATIONALITIES TO CODE FOR:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 African American<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 African<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALL countries (with only one exception, see below) on the continent of Africa, including those in North Africa, are automatically considered as African, i.e.:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Algerian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Congolese<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ethiopian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kenyan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Libyan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Malian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Moroccan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nigerian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rwandan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Somali<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 South African<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sudanese<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tunisian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zimbabwean<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Etc.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The islands of the Seychelles, Madagascar and Mauritania are also African.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exception is<strong> Egypt:<\/strong> for Egypt to be considered as African under this variable the story must explicitly mention Egypt, Egyptians or Egyptian organizations as African \u2013 such stories are likely to be rare.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Please see the note below about exclusion of Africans coverage in this analysis <\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;obamas-race-variable&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"obamas-race-variable\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Obama\u2019s Race Variable<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <em>Definition:<\/em> This applies to stories that are 25% or more about Obama\u2019s race.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stories coded for this variable may or may not also be coded for the African American variable.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a story features Obama at 25% or more and mentions his race even once, it qualifies for this variable.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For this analysis we added together stories that were coded for significant mentions of Africans\/African Americans and those that were coded for significant mention of Obama\u2019s race as \u201cAfrican American.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We then took one additional step. The purpose of this study was to examine African Americans in the news rather than Africans. Thus, in the African American Presence variable we excluded international or foreign stories such as those of the pirates in Somalia.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The total number of domestic stories came to 49316. That is 73% of all stories studied (67,245). The total number of domestic stories that talked about African Americans came to 643. <\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;african-american-press&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"african-american-press\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">African American Press<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For the separate study examining African American publications, PEJ researchers examined coverage of the Gates incident from February 16, 2009 through February 15, 2010 in the African American press.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Articles and editorials were identified using a Lexis Nexus search for \u201cHenry Louis Gates\u201d of the three largest circulation African American newspapers in the U.S., The Afro-American, the Philadelphia Tribune and the New York Amsterdam News, based on figures from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofthemedia.org\/2010\/ethnic_african_american.php#AfricanAmericanNewspapers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2010 State of the News Media<\/a>.\u00a0 Then articles were selected based on whether they would meet the qualification to be coded under the category \u201cArrest of Henry Louis Gates,\u201d according to NCI coding rules. Stories about Gates that were not related to the arrest were excluded.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This resulted in 17 stories: Four from the Afro-American, eight from the Philadelphia Tribune and five from the New York Amsterdam News.\u00a0 In all, ten of these articles were editorials or opinion pieces.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These stories were then read through and examined for sources interviewed, format (editorial, opinion, straight news or analysis) and other markers such as whether race relations or President Obama was mentioned.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The articles were qualitatively analyzed, with a close attention to how these newspapers differed in their coverage of the incident compared with the mainstream press. <\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;other-ethnic-measures&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"other-ethnic-measures\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Ethnic Measures <\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>Hispanic Presence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Definition:<\/em> This applies to stories that are 25% or more about a Hispanic person, group or organization. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPECIFIC TERMS AND NATIONALITIES TO CODE FOR:\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Argentinean<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Belizean<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bolivian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brazilian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chilean<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colombian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Costa Rican<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cuban<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dominican<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ecuadorian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Salvadoran<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Guatemalan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Honduran<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mexican<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nicaraguan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panamanian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paraguayan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peruvian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Portuguese<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Puerto Rican<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spanish (not language)<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uruguayan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Venezuelan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mexican\/Mexicana<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mestizo\/Mestiza (mixed race)<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mexican American<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spanish\/Spaniard<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Latin\/Latino\/Latina<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Indian (Only if Latin American indigenous heritage)<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chicano\/Chincana<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mulatto\/Mulatta<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Moreno\/Morena<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Asian\/ Asian-American Presence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This applies to stories that are 25% or more about an Asian person, people or organization. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPECIFIC TERMS TO CODE FOR: <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Asian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Asian American<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Asian American Pacific Islander <br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pacific Islander <br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hawaiian<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Certain ethnicities are automatically considered Asian if their country of origin is mentioned. These ethnicities and nationalities are:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Burmese (Myanmar)<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cambodian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chinese<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Filipino (Philippines)<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Indian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Indonesian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Japanese<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Korean<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Malaysian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pakistani<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Taiwanese<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thai<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tibetan<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vietnamese<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other ethnicities are sometimes considered Asian, but sometimes considered as part of a different group. For these ethnicities, there must be something explicit in the story linking them with an Asian culture or ethnicity. These include ethnicities\/nationalities such as:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Afghan or Afghanistani<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Armenian<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georgian (Republic of Georgia)<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kazakhstani or Kazakh<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kyrgyzstani or Kyrgyz<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tajikistani or Tajik<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Turkmenistani or Turkmen<br> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uzbekistani or Uzbek <\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;big-storyline&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"big-storyline\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big Storyline<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Big storyline is defined as and storyline that is been covered in multiple national-news outlets for more than one news cycle or as storylines that occurred often in the news.\u00a0 A story needs to be 50% about the big storyline to qualify as such. <\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;lead-newsmaker&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"lead-newsmaker\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lead Newsmaker<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> This is the person who appears as the main focus of a story.\u00a0 The newsmaker is a person whose actions or statements constitute the main subject matter.\u00a0 The lead newsmaker must be discussed in at least 50% of a story <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and Social &amp; Demographic Trends analyzed news coverage of African Americans during a 12-month time period, February 16, 2009 \u2013 February 15, 2010.\u00a0 The analysis is based on coding conducted as part of PEJ\u2019s weekly News Coverage Index (NCI). 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