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short readsMar 7, 2012

More Users of Social Networking Sites Are Deleting Their ”Friends”

About two-thirds (63%) of users of social networking sites have deleted people from their “friends” lists, up from 56% in 2009.
short readsMar 7, 2012

Growing Support for Auto Industry Bailout

Although unpopular at the time, a majority of Americans (56%) now say that loans made to General Motors and Chrysler in 2009 to help them avoid bankruptcy have been mostly good for the economy.
short readsMar 7, 2012

A Majority Says that Government Regulation of Business Does More Harm than Good

Just over half (52%) of Americans say government regulation of business usually does more harm than good, although there are specific areas in which the public says regulation should be strengthened or at least kept the same.
short readsMar 7, 2012

Hispanics Will Account for an Increasingly Large Share of Labor Force Growth

Hispanics will account for the vast majority — 74% — of the 10.5 million workers added to the labor force between 2010 and 2020.
reportMar 7, 2012

Religion in the Super Tuesday Primaries

Exit polls from Super Tuesday primaries show that Mitt Romney continues to struggle among evangelicals, and Rick Santorum is yet to win among Catholics in any state where exit polling was conducted.
reportMar 6, 2012

Election Again Top Story for Public and Media

Overview Election news continued to be the public’s top story last week, just ahead of the March 6 Super Tuesday voting. Just more than two-in-ten (22%) say they followed news about the candidates for president more closely than any other news. Somewhat fewer (17%) cite the tornadoes that hit parts of the Midwest, according to […]
reportMar 6, 2012

Does Humanitarian Aid Improve America’s Image?

U.S. humanitarian aid helped improve America’s image in Japan following the devastating March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. However, recent examples from Indonesia and Pakistan show that the impact of disaster relief on ratings for the U.S. has its limits.
reportMar 5, 2012

GOP Race Is Rallying Democrats

The Republican nomination battle is rallying Democrats behind Barack Obama. Currently, 49% of Democrats say that as they learn more about the GOP candidates, their impression of Obama is getting better. Just 36% of Democrats expressed this view in December, before the Republican primaries began. In contrast, there has been virtually no change in Republicans’ […]
reportMar 5, 2012

The Search for a New Business Model

How close are America’s beleaguered newspapers to solving their revenue problems? A new report from PEJ that includes detailed case studies of dozens of daily papers and interviews with newspaper company executives finds an industry struggling to reinvent itself, but also some hopeful success stories.
reportMar 4, 2012

Election Leads as Super Tuesday Nears

The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. However, the data is available.