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    Mobile Revenue

    Mobile at this point is a small part of the revenue of the newspapers in this study. In late 2011, on average, mobile accounted for only .9% of the digital revenue stream of the papers that provided us with data-less than even video and targeted advertising. This is still a nine-fold increase from a negligible […]

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    Methodology

       About This Study The primary PEJ staff members conducting the research, analysis and writing for this report included: Research Associate Tricia Sartor, Research Analyst Katerina-Eva Matsa, researchers Nancy Vogt and Steve Adams, Deputy Director Amy Mitchell and Director Tom Rosenstiel.   Other staff members who made contributions were Senior Researcher Paul Hitlin and Communications […]

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    Appendix C. Methodology

    The measures of migration developed for this report draw on numerous data sources from both Mexico and the U.S. The principal Mexican data sources are: Mexican censuses (Censos de Población y Vivienda) of 1990, 2000 and 2010 (10% sample of each); The Mexican Population Count (II Conteo de Población y Vivienda) of 2005 (10% sample); […]

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    Divorce and the Great Recession

    At the Population Association of America’s annual conference in San Francisco this week, papers on the recession’s impact on families, wealth, children, young adults, older Americans and other realms of life will be presented in at least 10 of the 200-plus sessions. Much of the research is preliminary, but it raises intriguing questions. One paper tries to assess whether the poor economy has affected divorce rates.

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    The Future of Money in a Mobile Age

    In a Pew Internet/Elon University survey, internet experts predict that payment with mobile devices will be commonplace by 2020, although a number of potential hurdles and holdouts stand in the way

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    Frames of Campaign Coverage

    Once the presidential primaries begin—and there is a new electoral contest nearly every week—the media often focus heavily on tactics, strategy and the numbers of the horse race. On top of that, during the primaries the policy differences between candidates are sometimes fairly minimal as rivals contend for the favor of party primary voters. In […]

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    Main Findings: Corporate responsibility: Which road will be taken?

    Respondents’ thoughts The wide range of variability in the tone of the answers to this question can be represented by the following two opposing statements, made by anonymous respondents who filed their answers at the same time on the same day: “The development of the Internet as a complex adaptive system will continue to evolve, […]

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    Women, Work and Motherhood

    Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen’s comment this week about Ann Romney’s lack of work experience has put the “mommy wars” back in the news. Here is a summary of surveys in recent years that explore public attitudes about issues related to women, work and motherhood.

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    The Revenue Gap

    The good news for the newspaper industry in this data is that the percentage of digital ad revenue is growing at a double-digit pace. Overall, for the last full year for which papers had data, digital revenue at the papers studied grew 19% on average. We found that the highest rate of annual digital ad […]