Table 1. Coverage and Sources of Selected High-profile Front-page Stories in US Newspapers in Newseum, by Newspaper Title.
| Story 1# | Story 2† | Story 3 ^ | Story 4Δ | Story 5 (Control)‡ | |||||
| Date | Oct 12, 2007 | Oct 15, 2007 | Oct 17, 2007 | Nov 21, 2007 | Apr 17, 2007 | ||||
| No. (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. (%) * | |
| All newspaper titles | 326 (100) | - | 328 (100) | - | 340 (100) | - | 330 (100) | - | 306 (100) |
| Total coverage | 207 (63.5) | - | 146 (44.5) | - | 191 (56.2) | - | 204 (61.8) | - | 303 (99.0) |
| News source (% of coverage): | |||||||||
| Staff writers | 29 (14.0) | - | 4 (2.7) | - | 17 (8.9) | - | 22 (10.8) | - | 37 (12.2) |
| News syndicates | 30 (14.5) | - | 22 (15.1) | - | 56 (29.3) | - | 63 (30.9) | - | 71 (23.4) |
| Wire services | 76 (36.7) | - | 90 (61.6) | - | 64 (33.5) | - | 76 (37.3) | - | 164 (54.1) |
| Unauthored briefs ∇ | 72 (34.8) | - | 30 (20.5) | - | 54 (28.3) | - | 43 (21.1) | - | 31 (10.2) |
| Coverage, excluding unauthored briefs | 135 (41.4) | 0.466 (0.357 to 0.608) | 116 (35.4) | 0.398 (0.305 to 0.520) | 137 (40.3) | 0.453 (0.351 to 0.586) | 161 (48.8) | 0.549 (0.428 to 0.704) | 272 (88.9) |
| News source (% of coverage): | |||||||||
| Staff writers | 29 (21.5) | 1.579 (0.931 to 2.678) | 4 (3.4) | 0.253 (0.075 to 0.766) | 17 (12.4) | 0.912 (0.496 to 1.679) | 22 (13.7) | 1.005 (0.572 to 1.76) | 37 (13.6) |
| News syndicates | 30 (22.2) | 0.851 (0.530 to 1.368) | 22 (19.0) | 0.727 (0.430 to 1.229) | 56 (40.9) | 1.566 (1.043 to 2.350) | 63 (39.1) | 1.499 (1.014 to 2.217) | 71 (26.1) |
| Wire services | 76 (56.3) | 0.934 (0.664 to 1.314) | 90 (77.6) | 1.287 (0.919 to 1.802) | 64 (46.7) | 0.775 (0.544 to 1.104) | 76 (47.2) | 0.783 (0.560 to 1.09) | 164 (60.3) |
#
Cough and cold medicines withdrawn from retail outlets.
†
US cancer death rates drop.
^ Increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cases.
Δ
Skins cells transformed into stem cells.
‡
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) shootings.
*
Because of rounding, not all percentages total 100.
∇
Small box briefs, banner headings and anonymous short summaries.