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Summary of Findings As he has since January, this week, Barack Obama enjoyed much more visibility as far as the public was concerned than did John McCain. By a margin of 76% to 11% respondents in Pew’s weekly News Interest Index survey named Obama over McCain as the candidate they have heard the most about […]
Exploring the relationship between gaming and civics Video games are immensely popular, particularly among teens and young adults. Yet there is much to learn about the content and context of teens’ gaming experiences, the mechanics of their play, and the relationships between playing games and a range of academic, social, and civic outcomes. To date, […]
Introduction “The qualifications for self-government are not innate,” wrote Thomas Jefferson, “but rather are the result of habit and long-training.”[51. numoffset=”51″ Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 1824, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (22 vols., 1905), edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 16, p. 22.] Indeed, the development of citizens, key to […]
Newspapers are suffering historic cuts in staffing and drops in revenue, while technological advances are creating new opportunities. What is disappearing from newspapers and what is being added?
Summary of Findings The financial crisis facing news organizations is so grave that it is now overshadowing concerns about the quality of news coverage, the flagging credibility of the news media, and other problems that have been very much on the minds of journalists over the past decade. An ever larger majority of journalists at […]
By Tom Rosenstiel and Amy Mitchell, Project for Excellence in Journalism Introduction Journalists have become markedly more pessimistic about the future of their profession. But their concerns are taking a distinctly new turn. Rather than worrying as much about quality, they are now focused on economic survival. And in that new focus, we see signs […]
This survey is a joint effort of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Both organizations are sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts and are projects of the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping […]
