Survey of International Journalists

At the begiining of this project, I found that it was very hard to do any research on this subject. there are many reasons for this, but the main point was that there was only qualitative research done, up to this point, there was no quanitative research. I decided to do original research to obtain quantitative data to substantiate my project.

this survey consisted of 10 questions. It was taken by 20 international journalists. Since there are only 20 international journalists, the results are far from conclusive, but it can be used as an indicator of opinion trend.

20% of the respondents were from the Middle East and North Africa
6.7% were from Sub-Sahara Africa
13.3% were from Eastern Europe and Central Eurasia
6.7% were from Asia and the Pacific
33.3% were from Western Europe
As the results show, the greater percentage of respondents were from Western Europe. The respondents answers were similar to what I predicted they would be.

Not one of the respondents thought that McCain would be best leader for the US. Approx 2/3 thought that Obama would be the best, the other third thought that Hillary Clinton would be. Two-thirds thought that Obama would win the general election.

75% believed that electing a minority would positively change perceptions of the US throughout the world. 50% said that race would be considered more significant to the international media. 50% thought that Obama and Clinton have been covered differently due to their gender/race by the international media. Only 18.8% believed that they had not been covered differently because of their race and gender.

Here is the complete list of survey questions