The PEJ Year in the News Interactive allows you to explore and answer questions about media coverage in 2009. Follow the steps below to select among media sectors and news coverage categories. The default example illustrates coverage across all media sectors for the top three stories in 2009. The data are based on more than 68,700 stories analyzed in PEJ’s News Coverage Index for the year. Learn more about the Index from our methodology. Also, read PEJ’s Year in the News analysis, its Sector highlights, and its New Media findings, or go back to State of the News Media.