E-book Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines
23% of Americans ages 16 and older read an e-book in the past year, up from 16% the year before. The share who read a print book declined to 67%, from 72%.
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Big Gaps Between Young and Old on Which News Stories They Followed Closely
There was a 43 percentage point gap between young and old adults in how closely they followed news about the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.
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China’s New Leaders Ban Lavish Military Banquets
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Hillary Clinton’s Career of Comebacks
Overview Over the course of her long political career, Hillary Clinton truly has been a comeback kid. On four separate occasions over the past 20 years, Clinton’s favorability ratings have fallen sharply – but each time they recovered. It is rare for a political figure to accomplish that feat once in a career, much less […]
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Methodology: In Social Media and Opinion Pages, Newtown Sparks Calls for Gun Reform
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2012/12/20/social-media-and-opinion-pages-newtown-sparks-calls-gun-reform/ This special report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on media reaction to the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut uses data derived from four different methodologies. Data regarding the tone of conversation on social media (Twitter and blogs) were derived with a combination of PEJ’s traditional media research methods, based on […]
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Timeline: Top News Stories of 2012
Here’s a look at the public’s top 15 news stories of 2012, according to Pew Research Center’s News Interest Index.
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Election, Tragedies Dominate Top Stories of 2012
The public’s news interests were very much focused on domestic developments this year, with the election outcome, last week’s horrific school shooting and Hurricane Sandy leading the list of the top stories of 2012. With the exception of the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya in September, which became a bitterly debated campaign issue, […]