Introduction

The first decade of the 21st century has seen a dramatic increase in studies of journalists and journalism, including surveys of journalists in many countries around the world. Many of these studies have been modeled on the four major surveys of U.S. journalists conducted in 1971 (Johnstone, Slawski, & Bowman 1976); 1982–1983 (Weaver & Wilhoit 1986); 1992 (Weaver & Wilhoit 1996); and 2002 (Weaver, Beam, Brownlee, Voakes, & Wilhoit 2007).