Updated: October 15 2008

 In this section of our project Economic Crisis and the Media we show how the main issues related with the financial and economic crisis are portrayed by media in United States in terms of intensity, by groups of journals. In the graphs below we show how some selected issues related with the financial and economic crisis are present in comparison with the treatment given by all US media included in our data set. We have chosen three groups of reference newspapers:

1. Top US 5 newspapers by circulation and prestige: USA Today, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post.

2. Leading financial newspapers: Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.

3. Top 6-20 US newspapers by circulation

4. 500 US newspapers and news providers including 87 out of top 100 by circulation, main news agencies, regional and local press.

In each figure we compare the behaviour of all USA newspapers in our data set, for which we give value 100, to the behaviour of the other set of newspapers. A value higher than 100 implies that for that group of journals, that specific issue has a higher relative media coverage than the average coverage given by all US newspapers. Values lower than 100 imply that this group of journals receives less media coverage than average treatment given by all US newspapers.

The graphs below show some examples of the issues related with the crisis that we are following in our research project. Results refer to the media coverage given between the beginning of September 2008 and mid October (October 15).

You can find other examples of crisis related issues in this document (updated October 16)