Election Coverage Wrap-Up: USA Today
This post is the continuation of our media monitoring series examining coverage behavior of various media outlets during Election 2012. Today’s post discusses the statistical data analysis of the topic,…
Election Coverage Wrap-Up: NPR
This post is the continuation of our media monitoring series examining coverage behavior of various media outlets during Election 2012. Today’s post discusses the statistical data analysis of the sourcing…
Election Coverage Wrap-Up: The Wall Street Journal
This post is the continuation of our media monitoring series examining coverage behavior of various media outlets during Election 2012. Today’s post discusses the statistical data analysis of the sourcing…
Citizens Were Critical of Obama Character and Economy in Final Week
On November 1, 4thEstate published a post about Citizen newsmakers gaining VoiceShare in print election coverage. They played an increasingly larger role in writing the election narrative as Election Day…
Citizens Now Writing Election Narrative in Print Media
This is one of many posts from 4thestate about citizen newsmakers. We have followed the trends and patterns of citizens’ role in election media coverage deeply. Other posts about citizens…
Hey, Citizens are Starting to Like Romney
Throughout the majority of this year’s Presidential campaign, Obama had led the likability contest among those voters who have been amplified by the media (i.e. they have been sued as…
Before Ryan Selection, Citizens Were Gaining VoiceShare
Up until Ryan was picked to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, Citizen VoiceShare was increasing steadily for the first time since mid-June. As was the case during the GOP primaries,…
Gender Gap Update
Since The 4thEstate Project published the Gender Gap Report on June 1, there has been a slight increase in female VoiceShare in print coverage of the election. In the month…
Obama Leads Likeability Contest Among Citizens
Citizens have expressed much less concern about Obama’s character than they have about Romney’s. While both candidates have received more negative coverage on their character than positive, Romney’s character is…
Romney’s Character a Problem for Citizens
4thEstate published a post on April 1 that highlighted how the media was amplifying that citizens favored Santorum’s personality over Romney’s, over which they were repeatedly quoted as being skeptical…









