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Teenage life online In June 2001, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project published its first report about teenage life online and described the state of teens’ experiences online this way: The Internet is the telephone, television, game console, and radio wrapped up in one for most teenagers and that means it has […]
In the past 12 months, 53% of Americans ages 16 and older visited a library or bookmobile; 25% visited a library website; and 13% used a handheld device such as a smartphone or tablet computer to access a library website. All told, 59% of Americans ages 16 and older had at least one of those […]
AP and NWP teachers participating in the survey report giving students written assignments ranging from research papers to short responses, journaling, and creative writing. The type and frequency of written assignments varies considerably by the subject being taught and grade level, but on the whole these AP and NWP teachers place tremendous value on formal […]
As news organizations respond to the economic challenges of the digital era, one such response has been to focus on sales teams that had long been steeped in a legacy culture. Among the papers surveyed for Pew Research’s March 2012 report on “The Search for New Business Models,” more than three-quarters reported working on retraining […]
China’s alleged cyber-espionage campaigns against other governments, major corporations and, most recently, the media, have increasingly become a focus of U.S. officials and news reports. In the superpower competition between the U.S. and China, most American experts ranked cyber attacks from China as a more serious problem than the economic or military challenges it poses.
For more information, contact: Mark Jurkowitz, Associate Director, Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, 202-419-3650 Amy Mitchell, Acting Director, Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, 202-419-3650 Amid Grim Economic Landscape for Newspapers, New Pew Research Study Identifies Four Revenue Success Stories Feb. 11, 2013 – Amid America’s embattled newspaper industry, a new […]
Library Services Survey Prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project November 2012 SUMMARY The Library Services Survey, conducted for the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,252 people ages 16 and older living in […]
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat is housed in a boxy, nondescript building in a section of downtown Santa Rosa, Calif. with a distinctly old-fashioned feel. But on the main floor of the newspaper, right off the lobby, visitors enter a modern space with large conference rooms, big plasma screens and sleek black furniture that would […]