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    The Newspaper Industry Overall

    The newspaper industry was, in many ways, was the news sector hit first and hardest by the advent of the digital age. As readers began to move online, papers were still producing strong profit margins with the vast majority of revenues tied to their legacy product. So, for the newspaper industry—culturally more tied to content […]

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    High Engagement

    About three in ten Americans ages 16 and older are “highly engaged” with public libraries. Those in this bracket sort into two basic groups: Library Lovers, who represent the 10% of Americans with the highest levels of library engagement; and Information Omnivores, who represent an additional 20% of Americans. As a whole, the high engagement […]

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    Facebook News “Sharers”

    Another important subset of users is those who very actively engage with news on the site – the 12% who often post or share news stories (including posting their own content directly to a news organization’s or reporter’s Facebook page). While there are some notable similarities between the behaviors of this engaged group and those […]

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    Who Uses Facebook for News

    The Young Demographically, Facebook news consumers are notably young – younger, even, than Facebook users more broadly. The average adult Facebook news consumer is 39, a full eight years younger than other adults on Facebook and younger than the average U.S. adult. Further, about a third, 34%, of Facebook news consumers are 18-29 years old, […]

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    Main Report: An In-depth Look at Expert Responses

    A large majority of the technology experts and engaged Internet users who responded to this canvassing—83%—agreed that the Internet/Cloud of Things and embedded and wearable computing will have widespread and beneficial effects by 2025. Most of the responses shared in this report are from people who took credit for their remarks, but a few of […]

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    Historic Deals of Major U.S. Newspaper Companies

    In addition to The Washington Post, several other major newspapers have recently been purchased, with the sales prices revealing a heavy devaluation of the product. Only days before The Post sale, , The New York Times accepted an offer for $70 million from the Boston Red Sox’s principal owner to buy The Boston Globe – […]

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    The Washington Post: By The Numbers

    On August 5, The Washington Post, which had been owned by the Graham family for 80 years, was sold to the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos for $250 million in cash. Along with The Post, Bezos also bought the free tabloid, The Express, the weekly Spanish-language newspaper El Tiempo Latino, The Gazette chain of […]