Editor donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Editor × 2008

EDITOR plus cycle 2008 equals $799,017. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2008. Journalist, reporter, publisher, and managing editor are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a newsroom headcount, an ASNE census, or a masthead file. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Editor donations at /occupations/editor/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $799,017 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Editor in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $799,017. Newspaper versus magazine versus book versus web editing is unpublished for Editor in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

EDITOR as typed, not journalist

$12.1 million ($12,055,499) belongs to the exact string EDITOR across harvested cycles. It is not a newsroom headcount, an ASNE census, or a masthead file. People who wrote nearby wording — journalist, reporter, publisher, and managing editor — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 6.6% of that title bucket. Share of EDITOR is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $799,017. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $12,055,499. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Editor donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $799,017.

1,164 editor receipts in a presidential year

524 donors and 1,164 receipts — about 2.2 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $686; mean per donor about $1,525. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 524 donors makes this a mid-size occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 1,164 is a line count, not 524 one-time gifts; about two lines per donor, which is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window. Newspaper versus magazine versus book versus web editing is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by EDITOR. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $799,017.

Title versus publisher PACs

Cite $799,017 as Editor in 2008. Cite $12,055,499 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add publisher and media-company PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $799,017 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 6.6%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode EDITOR into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite editor money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation EDITOR, election cycle 2008, $799,017 in itemized individual contributions, 1,164 receipts, and 524 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $686 per line and $1,525 per donor in the cell. If the live Editor donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 1,164 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Editor donations rolls every cycle into one EDITOR running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Editor × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 1,164 receipts and $799,017. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did editor filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Editor itemized $799,017 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 1,164 receipts and 524 donors. That is 6.6% of $12,055,499 under EDITOR. Journalist, reporter, publisher, and managing editor are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include media-company PACs?

No. $799,017 is individual contributions tagged Editor in 2008. Publisher and media-company PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $799,017 would blend FEC tables. See Editor donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Editor in 2008 is $799,017 on 1,164 receipts from 524 donors.

Are editor labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses EDITOR. Journalist, reporter, publisher, and managing editor are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a newsroom headcount, an ASNE census, or a masthead file. Cite $799,017 for this title in 2008 on 1,164 receipts from 524 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Editor donations ($12.1 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $799,017 from 1,164 receipts and 524 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Editor in 2008.