The Associated Press
Survey of U.S. Editors

• Sept. 11 attacks
• War on terrorism
• Anthrax bio-terrorism
• Recession in the United States
• Bush inauguration
• Execution of Timothy McVeigh for

   bombing of federal building in

   Oklahoma
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont

   quits Republican Party and

   becomes an independent, tilting

   control of the

   Senate to the Democrats
• Power crisis in California
• U.S. tax cut

The Pew Research Center
U.S. News Interest Index

• Terrorism attack on the U.S

• Trade  Center/Pentagon attacks

• Identifying those who attacked

   the U.S.
• High gasoline prices
• Defending against future

   terrorism

• Release of U.S. air crew from

   China
• Building anti-terror coalition
• Economic effects of terrorism

• Possible U.S. military action
• U.S. military effort in

   Afghanistan

The Associated Press
Survey of International Editors

• Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United

   States and the ensuing war on

   terrorism
• The anthrax scare
• Renewed violence between

   Palestinians and Israelis
• George W. Bush takes office as as

   U.S. president; American politics

• Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan

   Milosevic arrested, taken to The

   Hague

• World economy weakens
• Europe hit by mad cow and foot-and-

   mouth diseases
• Rising power of the European Union;

   introduction of common currency

• China admitted to World Trade

   Organization
• (Statistical tie)

     *Unrest at G-8 Summit

     *Massacre of Nepalese royal family

China Daily

Editorial Board
 

• Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United

   States
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalated
• World economic slowdown
• China enters into World Trade

   Organization
• The United States withdraws from

   the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
• Embryo cloning sparks heated debate

• Tension rises between India and

   Pakistan
• Royal massacre in Nepal
• Earthquake in India kills about 20,000

   people
• Former Filipino and Indonesian

   presidents impeached and Arroyo

   and Megawati, respectively,

   become new presidents

The Japan Times,

Tokyo, Japan
the editors
 

• War in Afghanistan
• Sept. 11
• U.S. recession
• Uncertainty in Indonesia
• Confusion in North-South Korea

   relations
• China: The World Trade Organization

   and 2008 Olympics
• India-Pakistan dispute
• Ballistic Missile Treaty
• Enron collapses
• Argentina defaults

Matichon Daily

Bangkok, Thailand

the editors
 

• Sept. 11 attack on the twin towers,

    New York
• The swift U.S retaliation attack on

    Afghanistan
• Fear of anthrax
• The world economic downturn
• New eruption of violence in the

   Palestinian-Israeli conflict
• China’s entrance into the World Trade

   Organization
• The birth of Princess Aiko to Princess

    Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito

    of Japan
• The impeachment of President

    Estrada in the Philippines
• Earthquake in the western Indian

   state of Gujarat
• The massacre of eight members of

    the Nepalese royal family

Reporter,

Belgrade, Yugoslavia,

Perica Vucinic, editor

• Sept. 11
• War against terrorism
• Closer relations between Russia and

   the United States
• Extradition of Slobodan Milosevic to

   the Hague Tribunal
• Social unrest in Argentina
• Protests against globalization
• Parliamentary elections in Kosovo
• War in (Former Yugoslav Republic of)

   Macedonia
• International success of Harry Potter

   books and film
• Decision to give 2008 Olympic Games

   to Beijing

The News

Lagos, Nigeria,
Babafemi Ojudu, managing editor
 

• Terrorist attack on the United States
• Tiv/Junkun crisis claims lives of 19

   soldiers
• Dec. 23 assassination of Chief Bola

   Ige, Nigeria’s attorney general and

   minister of justice
• Public hearings of the Human Rights

   Violation Investigation Commission
• Religious riots in Jos between

   Christians and Muslims
• War of the pastors and tension

   among Pentecostal churches
• The controversial electoral bill
• Nigerian Agbani Darego wins Miss

   World