An article on the survey can be found here.

The actual survey can be found here.

Even among those willing to identify themselves as one or the other, at the national level liberals outnumber conservatives almost 5 to 1.

A lot of "moderates" in the media, aren't there? Around where I live, a "moderate" is usually a liberal who isn't actually wearing a picture of Che on his T-shirt, and I would have liked to see a few more questions actually showing where the moderate viewpoint is. Not enough data.

On the other hand, there was some encouraging news. Maybe there is a libertarian trend in journalism.

From the actual survey:

Journalists’ own politics are also harder to analyze than people might think. The fact that journalists—especially national journalists—are more likely than in the past to describe themselves as liberal reinforces the findings of the major academic study on this question, namely that of David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit, in their series of books “The American Journalist.”

But what does liberal mean to journalists? We would be reluctant to infer too much here. The survey includes just four questions probing journalists’ political attitudes, yet the answers to these questions suggest journalists have in mind something other than a classic big government liberalism and something more along the lines of libertarianism. More journalists said they think it is more important for people to be free to pursue their goals without government interference than it is for government to ensure that no one is in need.

This libertarian strain is particularly strong among local journalists, who are also more likely to describe themselves as moderate.

More research here is probably useful. The debate over press ideology is fraught with difficulty. Some of the research done in the past has been, frankly, poor, and on the other side, some journalists would rather not face the question at all. Neither of these approaches is satisfactory.

But there is something here for journalists to be concerned about.