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reportAug 3, 2006

Pragmatic Americans Liberal and Conservative on Social Issues

Navigate this Report Summary of Findings Abortion Opinions Stable Most Don’t Doubt Their Opinion on Abortion Majorities Continue to Support Stem Cell Research Continued Opposition to Gay Marriage Among Gay Marriage Supporters, Division over How Best to Proceed Catholics, Mainline Protestants Support Civil Unions Growing Number See Homosexuality as Innate, Unchangeable Trait Opinion on Pharmaceutical […]
short readsAug 2, 2006

Concern About Global Warming

That’s the percentage of those Americans who have heard of global warming who say they personally worry about the issue a great deal (19%) or a fair amount (34%). Fewer Americans worry about global warming than do people in any of the other major industrialized nations included in the 2006 Pew Global Attitudes Survey.
short readsAug 2, 2006

Border Crossing Cards

The number of individual entries by Mexicans and Canadians who have border crossing cards and were authorized for temporary stays in the U.S. in 2004.
reportAug 1, 2006

Now in its Adolescence, the Internet Evolves into a Supplementary News Source

Now, as the internet enters its second decade as a potent new information technology, a study of America’s news consumption puts that adolescent’s role in the media family into sharper focus and clearer context.
reportAug 1, 2006

Can the ’Dead Tree’ Newspaper Survive?

In this, the third of the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism roundtables on the future of the news media, six experts from inside the newspaper industry discuss its future, its fate, and the changes it must make to survive.
reportAug 1, 2006

Americans and Their Cars: Is the Romance on the Skids?

Any nation with more passenger vehicles than licensed drivers has a pretty serious love affair with the automobile. But the romance seems to be cooling off a bit — a casualty of its own intensity.
reportJul 31, 2006

The Future of News Magazines

The fourth of our roundtables on the future of the news media focuses on news magazines. Our group of experts sees big changes ahead for the industry in content and approach.
reportJul 31, 2006

How Americans get news

Our colleagues at the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press today released a major new report about the way people get news. The Center found that Americans’ use of traditional sources of news has continued to decline and the internet as …
reportJul 30, 2006

Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership

Overview A decade ago, just one-in-fifty Americans got the news with some regularity from what was then a brand new source the internet. Today, nearly one-in-three regularly get news online. But the growth of the online news audience has slowed considerably since 2000, particularly among the very young, who are now somewhat less likely […]
presentationJul 28, 2006

The impact of the internet

This presentation covers many of the major findings from the Project about the social impact of the internet.