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    Jessica Lynch

    PEJ examines how the Lynch saga grew and changed in the media over time.

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    Cross-Ownership

    Cross-Ownership Another ownership category likely to be affected by the FCC ruling is cross-ownership within a market-that is, one company owning both a newspaper and a television station in the same metropolitan area. To understand what these changes might mean, we looked at instances where such cross-ownership situations already exist and compared them to the […]

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    Which Ownership Produces the Best “Quality” News?

    Which Ownership Produces the Best “Quality” News? Ownership Size and Quality What category of ownership best serves the public interest when it comes to news? Our five-year data sample suggests that when it comes to overall quality, smaller is better. Size of Corporate Owner and Quality Grade Grade Top 10 Groups 11-25 Groups Midsize Groups […]

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    Part 1. Internet Health Resources

    The number of health seekers continues to increase. The Pew Internet & American Life Project first began tracking Internet behavior relating to health in March 2000. At that time, 54% of all U.S. Internet users, or about 50 million American adults, said “yes” when we asked if they looked for health or medical information online. […]

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    Snob Journalism

    Thank you. It is an honor, and pleasure, to be here for the Ruhl Symposium. It was also, I have to add, moving to be here for the Payne Awards. Hearing the stories of the winners, of the hardships these journalists had to overcome, including death threats, legal pressure and government coercion, …

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    Quality and the Bottom Line

    Initial PEJ research into the relationship between quality and profits indicates that good journalism is good business.

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    Appendix A

    Factor Analysis Factor analysis is also known as latent variable analysis. It is a statistical technique aimed at answering the question: What are the underlying and unobserved factors that may explain – and, importantly, summarize – complex phenomenon? A classic use of factor analysis is to determine where people fall on the political spectrum.  One […]

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    Part 6. Other social factors that relate to being offline

    Additional factors In our survey we tried to explore several other aspects of people’s lives that might be related to whether they go online or not. The results indicate there are several other factors that influence or relate to going online or staying offline.[8.numoffset=”8″ For more details on the analysis in this part of the […]

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    The Internet and the Iraq war

    In the early days of the war with Iraq, 77% of online Americans used the Internet in some connection with the war. They went online to get information about the war, to learn and share differing opinions about the conflict, to send and receive emails about events, to express their views and to offer prayers.