Romney & Obama Eye November
The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. However, the data is available.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. However, the data is available.
The News Interest Index is a weekly survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press aimed at gauging the public’s interest in and reaction to major news events. This project has been undertaken in conjunction with the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage Index, an ongoing content analysis of […]
Overview Americans focused most closely last week on news about the presidential election, as the race increasingly shifted from the Republican primary contest to the head-to-head fight between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Nearly three-in-ten (28%) say the campaign was their top story, while 16% say they most closely followed news about the economy, according […]
One way to further understand how well the surveys performed is to compare survey respondents with those who did not respond to the survey, using household data from third-party sources. An attempt was made to match all responding and non-responding households to records in two large national databases so they could be compared on a […]
About This Study The primary PEJ staff members conducting the research, analysis and writing for this report included: Tom Rosenstiel, director; Mark Jurkowitz associate director; and Hong Ji; senior methodologist. Other staff members who made contributions were Tricia Sartor, weekly news index manager; Dana Page, communications and creative design manager; and Laura Houston Santhanam, research […]
Introduction Altogether, 43% of Americans age 16 and older have read long-form writing in digital format as of December 2011 – either e-books or newspaper or magazine material in digital form. We get that figure by combining those in the December survey who have read e-books with the 31% of those who regularly read news […]
Many newspaper analysts and insiders have suggested that the industry must find additional revenue streams-beyond advertising and subscription-to ultimately arrive at a mix of revenue streams that constitutes a successful digital business model. This study probed the degree to which newspapers were trying nontraditional revenue experiments. What we found was that while almost half the […]
Given the uncertainties of the moment, we asked the newspaper officials to project what their industry might look like five years down the road. There were a variety of answers. The most common scenario was that the newspaper would be printed and delivered to people’s homes less frequently, perhaps as little as two to three […]
CONTACT: Tom Rosenstiel or Mark Jurkowitz of PEJ, 202.419.3650 America’s Newspapers: The Search for a New Business Model New Study Finds Some Papers Succeeding With Digital Revenue; But Many Executives Report Struggle to Change Business Culture Though the newspaper industry generally is making only halting progress in the search for a new revenue model, some […]
The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not publish a news index report this week. However, the data is available.