Table 2. Coverage and Sources of Selected High-profile Front-page Stories in US Newspapers in Newseum, by Ranked and Unranked Newspaper Title.
| Story 1# | Story 2† | Story 3 ^ | Story 4Δ | Story 5 (control)‡ | |||||
| No. (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. (%) * | |
| Number of Top 200 titles in Newseum | 138 (100) | - | 126 (100) | - | 156 (100) | - | 136 (100) | - | 153 (100) |
| Total coverage in ranked titles | 108 (78.3) | 0.774 (0.538 to 1.113) | 85 (67.5) | 0.679 (0.476 to 0.968) | 117 (75.0) | 0.755 (0.544 to 1.048) | 107 (78.7) | 0.792 (0.565 to 1.111) | 152 (99.3) |
| Coverage, excluding unauthored briefs, in ranked titles | 83 (60.1) | 0.644 (0.451 to 0.918) | 66 (52.4) | 0.560 (0.385 to 0.815) | 89 (57.1) | 0.610 (0.432 to 0.863) | 97 (71.3) | 0.763 (0.540 to 1.079) | 143 (93.5) |
| News source (% of coverage): | |||||||||
| Staff writers | 25 (30.1) | 1.723 (0.930 to 3.193) | 4 (6.1) | 0.347 (0.116 to 1.036) | 14 (15.7) | 0.900 (0.444 to 1.822) | 19 (19.6) | 1.120 (0.585 to 2.146) | 25 (17.5) |
| News syndicates | 23 (27.7) | 0.777 (0.443to 1.363) | 17 (25.8) | 0.722 (0.388 to 1.345) | 42 (47.2) | 1.323 (0.813 to 2.153) | 41 (42.3) | 1.185 (0.730 to 1.926) | 51 (35.7) |
| Wire services | 35 (42.2) | 0.900 (0.551 to 1.469) | 45 (68.2) | 1.455 (0.903 to 2.345) | 33 (37.1) | 0.791 (0.483 to 1.297) | 37 (38.1) | 0.814 (0.505 to 1.312) | 67 (46.9) |
| Number of unranked titles in Newseum | 188 (100) | 202 (100) | 184 (100) | 194 (100) | 153 (100) | ||||
| Coverage, excluding unauthored briefs, in unranked titles | 52 (27.7) | 0.328 (0.223 to 0.483) | 50 (24.8) | 0.294 (0.199 to 0.433) | 48 (26.1) | 0.309 (0.209 to 0.459) | 65 (33.5) | 0.397 (0.276 to 0.573) | 129 (84.3) |
| News source (% of coverage): | |||||||||
| Staff writers | 4 (7.7) | 0.827 (0.255 to 2.682) | 0 (0) | 0 | 3 (6.3) | 0.672 (0.182 to 2.485) | 3 (4.6) | 0.496 (0.135 to 1.820) | 12 (9.3) |
| News syndicates | 7 (13.5) | 0.868 (0.346 to 2.177) | 5 (10.0) | 0.645 (0.230 to 1.812) | 14 (29.2) | 1.881 (0.881 to 4.019) | 23 (35.4) | 2.282 (1.169 to 4.457) | 20 (15.5) |
| Wire services | 41 (78.8) | 1.049 (0.645 to 1.706) | 45 (90.0) | 1.197 (0.740 to 1.937) | 31 (64.6) | 0.859 (0.509 to 1.449) | 39 (60.0) | 0.798 (0.496 to 1.285) | 97 (75.2) |
#
Cough and cold medicines withdrawn from retail outlets.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.