The Year in News

joshsternberg:

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released its top stories of 2011.

The biggest story of the year, however, was the economy. As the recovery weakened and Washington engaged in partisan warfare over the debt ceiling, news about the state of the economy jumped to the same level of attention it had received in 2009 when newly elected president Barack Obama passed his controversial stimulus package in response to the “Great Recession.” For all of 2011, the economy made up 20% of the space studied in newspapers and online and time on television and radio news, an increase of more than 40% from 14% of the newshole studied in 2010.

Click through to see what other stories, as well as their reported frequency, made the top stories of the year.

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