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    2. Analysis suggests some readers’ willingness to dig into long-form news on cellphones

    Given the increasing use of mobile devices for online news and the physical challenge of engaging with long-form content on the relatively small screen size of most mobile devices, media analysts have wondered whether there is a future for heftier, more substantial pieces of journalism. One way to test this is to measure the length […]

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    2. Candidates differ in their use of social media to connect with the public

    A new Pew Research Center analysis of three weeks of the candidates’ Facebook and Twitter accounts finds both similarities and differences in the ways Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders use these still relatively new campaign tools. The study of 714 tweets and 389 Facebook posts made by the candidates between May 11 and […]

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    Searching for News: The Flint water crisis

    Many Americans turned to Google to learn about the Flint water crisis. An analysis of aggregated searches over time illustrates how, in today’s digital environment, public interest shifts as a story unfolds.

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    4. Collaborative: Crowdfunding platforms

    Along with commercialized sharing and on-demand access, collaboration is a third hallmark of the new digital economy. Thanks to a proliferation of open digital platforms, people around the world can join together to take part in a variety of collaborative activities – from creating and circulating government petitions to supporting journalistic endeavors or helping to […]

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    1. The joy – and urgency – of learning

    Two large forces are driving fresh interest in the way people learn and why they learn. The first force is the rise of the internet and its disruptive potential for education, both for the formal purpose of gaining extra training and credentials and for the informal purpose of learning new things in hope of personal […]

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    1. The journalists covering Washington and whom they work for

    The cohort of journalists covering Washington affairs, from Congress to the White House and other federal agencies, continues to evolve. Reporters working for specialty publications often catering to elite audiences, labeled “niche” outlets in this report, have risen in number. So too have journalists working for publications that were born on the web – newer […]