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reportMay 18, 2020

For Global Legislators on Twitter, an Engaged Minority Creates Outsize Share of Content

Although most national officials use the platform, their posts receive only a small number of likes and retweets.
reportMar 11, 2020

American News Pathways Methodology

Data in the American News Pathways project is drawn from The American Trends Panel, a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Read for more information about this survey’s methodology.
reportFeb 18, 2020

2. Respondents who approve of everything

The study found a segment of respondents who expressed positive views about everything – even when that meant giving seemingly contradictory answers. This suggests untrustworthy data that stands to bias poll estimates. If a nontrivial share of respondents seek out positive answer choices and always selected them (e.g., on the assumption that it is a […]
reportMar 11, 2020

Black and white Democrats differ in their media diets, assessments of primaries

There are notable differences between white and black Democrats in news consumption habits and assessments of recent political events and figures in the news.
short readsApr 2, 2020

Tweets by members of Congress tell the story of an escalating COVID-19 crisis

More than half of all tweets sent by members of the U.S. Congress between March 11 and 21 were related to the coronavirus outbreak.
reportMay 20, 2020

Americans Who Rely Most on White House for COVID-19 News More Likely to Downplay the Pandemic

People in this group are most likely to say the outbreak has been made too big of a deal and journalists have been exaggerating the risks.
reportDec 8, 2020

2. Assessing different survey measurement approaches for news consumption

Broadly speaking, perhaps the biggest problem with survey measurement of news consumption is that it seems to produce inflated estimates of how much news people consume when compared with other sources, such as ratings or online trackers.[5.numoffset=”5″ E.g., Prior, 2009, “The Immensely Inflated News Audience: Assessing Bias in Self-Reported News Exposure.”] This may be because, […]
reportDec 8, 2020

3. The promise and pitfalls of using passive data to measure online news consumption

Given the challenges of survey research detailed above, it is worth considering other approaches to measuring news consumption – especially when it comes to getting news online. One possibility is so-called “passive” data, in which respondents’ online activity is recorded automatically by a computer tracker. Several vendors now offer these types of panels: They recruit […]
reportFeb 16, 2021

9. Interviews with Black pastors

Black pastors hold a storied place in American history. During the eras of slavery and racial segregation, they played pivotal roles in Black communal efforts to “uplift the race” (a phrase commonly used in the 19th and 20th centuries). This often included organizing job training, after-school mentoring, insurance collectives, athletic clubs and other community service […]
reportMar 25, 2020

Americans who primarily get news through social media are least likely to follow COVID-19 coverage, most likely to report seeing made-up news

More than half of these social media news consumers say they have encountered made-up news about COVID-19.

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American News Pathways Methodology

2. Respondents who approve of everything

Black and white Democrats differ in their media diets, assessments of primaries

Tweets by members of Congress tell the story of an escalating COVID-19 crisis

Americans Who Rely Most on White House for COVID-19 News More Likely to Downplay the Pandemic

2. Assessing different survey measurement approaches for news consumption

3. The promise and pitfalls of using passive data to measure online news consumption