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 […]
In general, the regular audiences for most television and print news outlets tend to be older than the public as a whole. Yet there are some notable exceptions. As was the case two years ago, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show have the youngest audiences of the 24 news sources tested: 43% of Colbert’s […]
When is the time of day people consume news? (And by implication, when is the best time for potential advertisers, or political actors, to try to reach mobile news consumers?) Here we find that mobile technology is changing behavior patterns, but in ways that might be more subtle than some might have expected. To begin […]
Despite the growth in tablet ownership and diversity of devices available, recent tablet owners seem to be embracing the devices in ways similar to the first generation of tablet owners. Most who own tablets-both early and late adopters – have integrated the devices into their routines on a daily basis. About two-thirds (68%) use their […]
The January to May 2012 NCI data set totals 20,447 stories: 1,977 newspaper stories, 3,242 online stories, 5,186 stories from network television, 6,472 stories on cable news, and 3,570 stories from radio programs.
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.
The way the candidates’ character and biography are portrayed was largely consistent across different media sectors, but there were some striking exceptions-and those came from cable news and radio talk. To a great extent, moreover, these ideological media are playing offense rather than defense-that is, spending considerably more time attacking the candidate they oppose than […]