Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Washington, DC In a noon conference call for journalists, Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, together with fellows John Green and Greg Smith, released the first of three reports on the Forum’s path-breaking U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, launched the interactive website accompanying the project and answered questions from reporters. […]
Westerners and Muslims Associate a Variety of Negative Traits With One Another
by Richard Wike, Pew Global Attitudes Project, and Brian J. Grim, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life News headlines bombard us almost daily with examples of conflict between the Muslim world and the West, whether the war in Iraq, the search for al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear […]
In the second quarter of 2007, the presidential campaign took over center stage. It was the top storyline overall, accounting for 9% of the newshole and edging out any one of the three Iraq story threads. (The Iraq war coverage combined amassed 15% of the newshole this quarter, but campaign coverage supplanted each of the […]
With the news split between stories like the Utah Mine collapse and the resignation of Karl Rove, the leading topic in the media last week was he 2008 campaign, but only barely. And by week’s end the nations’ economic turbulence was grabbing headlines.
The three user-generated sites had a lot of the same characteristics. Still, there were a few things that make each one stand apart. Digg Digg, launched in December 2004, is the most popular of the three user-news sites, according to data from Hitwise, which measures Web traffic for over one million online businesses. At the […]
PEJ News Coverage Index April 1 – June 29, 2007 Radio Top Stories (Percent of Newshole) 2nd QTR Rank Story All Talk News Headlines NPR’s Morning Edition Overall Talk Conservative Talk Liberal Talk QTR YTD QTR YTD QTR YTD QTR YTD QTR YTD QTR YTD 1 2008 Campaign 10.0 9.7 12.9 13.3 13.0 […]