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About This Study A number of people at the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism worked on PEJ’s “The Master Character Narratives in Campaign 2012.” Director Tom Rosenstiel and Associate Director Mark Jurkowitz wrote the report. Senior Researcher Paul Hitlin supervised the content analysis component. Researchers Steve Adams, Heather Brown, Emily Guskin and […]
CONTACT: PEJ Director Tom Rosenstiel or Associate Director Mark Jurkowitz at 202.419.3650 PEJ: Press Coverage of the Character of the Candidates is Highly Negative and Neither Obama nor Romney Has an Edge August 23, 2012-The portrayal in the news media of the character of the two presidential candidates in 2012 has been as negative as […]
Overview For the second time in a decade, the believability ratings for major news organizations have suffered broad-based declines. In the new survey, positive believability ratings have fallen significantly for nine of 13 news organizations tested. This follows a similar downturn in positive believability ratings that occurred between 2002 and 2004. The falloff in credibility […]
CONTACT: PEJ Deputy Director Amy Mitchell or Director Tom Rosenstiel at 202.419.3650 Analyzing the Digital Campaign: Obama Outpaces Romney in Direct Voter Communications on Web, Social Media The Obama campaign is using digital tools to communicate directly with voters-and bypass the filter of traditional media-at almost four times the rate of the Romney campaign. […]
We were interested to know about how the rise of e-books has affected people’s library use and experiences, so we asked about ownership of library cards. Our national survey showed that 58% of Americans ages 16 and older said they had a library card. And it turns out that library card ownership bounces around by […]
CONTACT: PEJ Deputy Director Amy Mitchell or Director Tom Rosenstiel 202.419.3650 PEJ: YouTube & News: A New Kind of Visual Journalism Is Developing, but Ethics of Attribution Have Yet to Emerge July 19, 2012-A new kind of visual journalism is developing on the video-sharing site YouTube, one in which citizens are sharing in content creation […]