Top Stories

Press Coverage and Public Interest: Matches and Mismatches

Public’s Top Stories of the Decade – 9/11 and Katrina

Top Stories of 2010: Haiti Earthquake, Gulf Oil Spill

Top Stories of 2009: Economy, Obama and Health Care

Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Outlet

Biggest Stories of 2008: Economy Tops Campaign

The Public’s Not-So-Happy New Year

More Dems Look Forward to Elections

What Was — and Wasn’t — On the Public’s Mind in 2007

by Andrew Kohut, President, Pew Research Center and Carroll Doherty, Associate Director, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

Gas Prices, Disasters Top Public’s News Interests In 2007

What Was — and Wasn’t on the Public’s Mind

...And How Opinions Changed During 2006
by Jodie T. Allen and Carroll Doherty

What Was – and Wasn’t on the Public’s Mind…

And How Opinions Changed During 2005

Public Opinion Little Changed by Presidential Election

Familiar Divides, Post-Election Disengagement

Iraq News Draws Most Public Attention in 2003

2003 Year End News Interest Index

Sniper Attacks Draw Most Public Interest in 2002

Terrorism Transforms News Interest

Worries Over New Attacks Decline

Rising Price of Gas Draws Most Public Interest in 2000

Columbine Shooting Biggest News Draw of 1999

High Personal Contentment, Low News Interest

Top 10 Stories of the Year

Ten Years of the Pew News Interest Index

Younger Americans and Women Less Informed: One In Four Americans Follow National News Closely

Times Mirror News Interest Index: 1989 – 1995

Year End Summary

The Public Looked Abroad for News in 1990