Table 3. Coverage and Sources of Selected High-profile Front-page Stories in Ranked US Newspapers in Newseum, by Total Circulation.
| Story 1# | Story 2† | Story 3 ^ | Story 4Δ | Story 5 (control)‡ | |||||
| No. per 100,000 (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. per 100,000 (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. per 100,000 (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. per 100,000 (%) * | Odds ratio (95% CI) | No. per 100,000 (%) * | |
| Circulation of Top 200 titles in Newseum | 385 (100) | 374 (100) | 402 (100) | 378 (100) | 411 (100) | ||||
| Total coverage | 314 (81.6) | - | 231 (61.8) | - | 293 (72.9) | - | 334 (88.4) | - | 410 (99.8) |
| News source (% of coverage): | |||||||||
| Staff writers | 103 (33.0) | - | 32 (13.6) | - | 49 (16.8) | - | 138 (41.3) | - | 147 (35.8) |
| News syndicates | 51 (16.4) | - | 44 (18.9) | - | 93 (31.8) | - | 110 (32.9) | - | 108 (26.4) |
| Wire services | 52 (16.5) | - | 70 (30.4) | - | 52 (17.8) | - | 62 (18.6) | - | 123 (29.9) |
| Unauthored briefs ∇ | 107 (34.1) | - | 86 (37.0) | - | 98 (33.6) | - | 24 (7.2) | - | 33 (8.0) |
| Coverage, excluding unauthored briefs | 207 (53.8) | 0.586 (0.471 to 0.730) | 146 (39.0) | 0.426 (0.336 to 0.539) | 195 (48.5) | 0.529 (0.424 to 0.660) | 310 (82.0) | 0.894 (0.728 to 1.098) | 377 (91.7) |
| News source (% of coverage): | |||||||||
| Staff writers | 103 (50.0) | 1.276 (0.942 to 1.729) | 32 (21.7) | 0.562 (0.367 to 0.862) | 49 (25.3) | 0.644 (0.446 to 0.93) | 138 (44.5) | 1.142 (0.866 to 1.506) | 147 (38.9) |
| News syndicates | 51 (24.9) | 0.86 (0.592 to 1.25) | 44 (30.1) | 1.052 (0.706 to 1.568) | 93 (47.9) | 1.665 (1.201 to 2.308) | 110 (35.5) | 1.239 (0.913 to 1.681) | 108 (28.7) |
| Wire services | 52 (25.1) | 0.77 (0.534 to 1.11) | 70 (48.3) | 1.47 (1.035 to 2.086) | 52 (26.8) | 0.817 (0.566 to 1.18) | 62 (20.0) | 0.613 (0.436 to 0.862) | 123 (32.5) |
#
Cough and cold medicines withdrawn from retail outlets.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.