Cable News: Fact Sheet
The data on the Cable News industry, from the 2015 State of the News Media report
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
In early 2014, Pew Research Center set out to build a probability-based panel – the American Trends Panel – to supplement our traditional method of data collection in the U.S. – the random digit dial (RDD) telephone survey. Here’s how we built and managed the panel, and what we learned from it in 2014.
Contrary to assertions that people “don’t care” about privacy in the digital age, this survey suggests that Americans hold a range of strong views about the importance of control over their personal information and freedom from surveillance in daily life. As earlier studies in this series have illustrated, Americans’ perceptions of privacy are varied in […]
Recruitment A 54% majority of those who were invited to join the panel agreed to do so, but not all of these individuals actually took part in panel surveys. Of those invited, 43% joined and responded to at least one wave in 2014, 33% responded to at least five waves and 20% responded to all […]
Amy S. Mitchell is director of journalism research at Pew Research Center. She is responsible for the Center’s research related to news and information, including how the public accesses, engages with and creates news, what news organizations are providing and how technology is changing all of these elements. Signature publications include The Modern News Consumer, Political […]