For its News Index PEJ monitors 55 different news outlets each week (33 or 34 per week-day) from five different media sectors

Newspapers (Thirteen in all, Sun-Fri)

The New York Times every day

Tier 1 - Code 2 out of these 4 every day

Washington Post
Los Angeles Times
USA Today
Wall Street Journal

Tier 2 - Code 2 out of these 4 every day

Kansas City Star
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
San Antonio Express-News
San Jose Mercury News

Tier 3 - Code 2 out of these 4 every day

Herald News (MA)
Anniston Star (AL)
Spokesman-Review (WA)
East Valley Tribune (AZ)

Note: The tier 2 and tier 3 papers were changed as of the beginning of 2009.

Web sites (Code 6 of 12 each day, Mon-Fri)

Yahoo News
MSNBC.com
CNN.com

NYTimes.com
Google News

AOL News

Foxnews.com

USAToday.com

Washingtonpost.com

ABCNews.com

BBC News (international version)

Reuters.com

Network TV (Seven in all, Mon-Fri)

Morning shows

ABC – Good Morning America
CBS – Early Show
NBC - Today

Evening news

ABC – World News Tonight
CBS – CBS Evening News
NBC – NBC Nightly News
PBS – Newshour with Jim Lehrer

Cable TV (Fifteen in all, Mon-Fri)

Daytime (2–2:30 pm) – code 2 out of 3 every day

CNN
Fox News
MSNBC

Nighttime CNN – code 2 out of the 4 every day

Situation Room (6 pm)
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull
Anderson Cooper 360

Nighttime Fox News – code 2 out of the 4 every day

Special Report w/ Brit Hume
Fox Report w/ Shepard Smith
O’Reilly Factor
Hannity & Colmes

Nighttime MSNBC – code 2 out of the 4 every day

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Hardball (7 pm)
Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann
The Rachel Maddow Show

Radio (Eight in all, Mon-Fri)

News and Headlines every day

ABC Radio headlines at 9am and 5pm
CBS Radio headlines at 9am and 5pm
NPR Morning Edition every day

Talk Radio

Rush Limbaugh every other day

1 out of 2 additional conservatives each day
Sean Hannity
Michael Savage

1 out of 2 liberals each day
Ed Schultz
Randi Rhodes

Updated January 1, 2009