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    Podcasts Proliferate, But Not Mainstream

    Nearly one in five internet users (19%) has downloaded a podcast to listen to or view later — up from 12% in 2006. But podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few download podcasts on a typical day.

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    Podcast Downloading 2008

    As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast.

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    Obama’s Background Better Known Than His Issue Positions

    Summary of Findings As Barack Obama prepares to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for president and frame his campaign message for the fall, many Americans still do not have a clear understanding of where he stands on the issues. Public awareness of Obama’s policy positions has increased modestly over the past month. Still, fewer than […]

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    Changing news audience behavior

    A new kind of news consumer emerges as a quarter of the population blends news sources rather than relying on one platform.

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    The Media’s Olympics

    The Beijing Olympics gave media an opportunity to report on the athletic competition and life inside the world’s most-populous nation. What—and who—got covered? Were there differences by media? And how did that differ from coverage abroad?

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    NBC’s News Leads with the Olympic Games

    The NBC television network paid $894 million for the exclusive rights to televise the Beijing Games. On its multiple platforms, NBC’s planned to broadcast a staggering 3,600 hours of live event coverage. Outside of that event coverage, the two primary news programs on NBC’s broadcast channel, the Today Show and the NBC Nightly News with […]

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    Differences by Sector

    Not all media sectors have given the same amount of attention to these games. Television, both network and cable, has devoted more time to the games than the front page of newspapers or than radio outlets have. Morning network television is the news sector that has devoted the most attention to the Olympics. The three […]

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    Olympics News Coverage Internationally–A Snapshot

    How is all this different from what a consumer might have learned from international media? During the first week of Olympics sporting events, PEJ took a two- day snapshot of high-circulation papers in Britain, China and Russia to give readers a qualitative look at the differences in coverage. The papers were the People’s Daily and […]

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    Methodology

    As a special report for PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index (NCI), The Media’s Olympics: How the News Media Have Covered the Games in Beijing is primarily based on the aggregated data collected as part of the NCI from August 3, 2008 through August 17, 2008. This timeframe includes the week leading up to the beginning […]

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    Strong Advance Interest in Democratic Convention

    Summary of Findings The upcoming Democratic National Convention is generating much more public interest than did the party’s convention four years ago. Fully 59% of Americans say they are interested in following what happens at the Democratic convention, up from 36% in 2004. Nearly a third (31%) say they are very interested, while 28% say […]

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