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Alan Murray is president of the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing trusted facts that help inform the public about issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Using opinion polling, demographic research and other empirical tools, Pew Research tracks and highlights key trends that are shaping a fast-changing world. Murray […]
Contact: Tom Rosenstiel or Amy Mitchell, PEJ, 202.419.3650 Arab-American Media: Bringing News to a Diverse Community Wednesday, November 28 – At a time of major news developments in the Middle East and North Africa, the Arab-American media’s efforts to meet the demands of its audience have been complicated by declining ad revenue, new technology, and […]
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping America and the world. The Pew Internet Project explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care […]
69% of U.S. adults track a health indicator like weight, diet, exercise routine, or symptom. Of those, half track “in their heads,” one-third keep notes on paper, and one in five use technology to keep tabs on their health status.
People in different communities sometimes have different connections to their local library. Suburban and urban residents are especially likely to have library cards and place value on the local library. Suburban residents are the most likely to have borrowed print or audiobooks from the library in the past 12 months. On other aspects of library […]
This is the fourth time the Pew Research Center has measured restrictions on religion around the globe.24 This report, which includes data for the year ending Dec. 31, 2011, follows the same methodology as Pew Research’s September 2012 report, “Rising Tide of Restrictions on Religion.” Pew Research uses two 10-point indexes – the Government Restrictions […]
Our new report takes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer — and what they say they would use in the future. For this last point, we asked about a range of potential offerings. Here are illustrations of some of these more innovative services, to see what they look like on the ground — as well as some “fun and funky” services that we’ve seen pop up at libraries across the county.
This report on media coverage of religion in the 2012 presidential campaign uses data derived from two different methodologies. Data regarding the coverage in the mainstream press were derived from the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s in-house coding operation. (Click here for details on how that project, also known as PEJ’s News Coverage Index, is conducted.) Data […]
Contact: Tom Rosenstiel, Amy Mitchell or Mark Jurkowitz of PEJ at 202.419.3650 The Final Days of the Media Campaign 2012: Obama enjoys surge in positive coverage the last week of the race; Attention to Romney drops November 19, 2012 – In the final days of the 2012 presidential campaign, Barack Obama enjoyed his most positive […]