“The popular image of undisciplined, unknowing and uncaring journalists is not supported by these findings,” said David Weaver, the Roy W. Howard professor in journalism and mass communication research at Indiana University Bloomington, one of the authors of the report. “This core group of journalists takes their work and their reporting ethics more seriously than a decade ago.”

The 2002 survey continues the series of major national studies of U.S. journalists begun in 1971 by sociologist John Johnstone and continued in 1982 and 1992 by Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit, IU professor of journalism. Much as the U.S. Census does for the general population, these studies provide an important decennial measure of the pulse of U.S. journalism.

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