Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) staff and researchers at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) conducted this study and contributed to the production of this report, “How Mainstream Outlets Use Twitter.” Sample The abridged NCI sample included six newspapers-three “tier 1” national newspapers with the highest print circulation, and […]
While blogs and Twitter are both called social media and have a similar basic function-the sharing of information and opinion-their news agendas differed markedly in 2011 (something we also saw in 2010). The data examined by PEJ reveal that Twitter users were more consumed by new digital technology and products. The blogosphere more closely followed […]
Overview The latest allegations in the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University rivaled news about the 2012 elections and the economy for the public’s attention last week. About two-in-ten (19%) say news about the candidates for the 2012 presidential elections was their top story, while 18% each say they followed news about the […]
In addition to the New York Times, other newspaper websites are popular as well: with USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post rounding out the top newspaper websites visited. These three sites also tend to rank within the top 10-15 news websites overall. The big nationally known outlets are also named most […]
Respondents’ thoughts One major sign of the sanctification of Big Data as a topic of interest with vast potential emerged in March this year when the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health joined forces “to develop new methods to derive knowledge from data; construct new infrastructure to manage, curate and serve data to […]
Overview The number of Americans hearing mostly bad news about the nation’s economy continues to decline. Three-in-ten (30%) now say they are hearing mostly bad economic news, less than half the number that said this in early August (67%). The percentage saying they are hearing a mix of good and bad news about the economy […]
One GOP candidate has not only soared in the polls recently, he’s become the focal point of news coverage as well. A presidential speech drove coverage of the week’s No. 2 story, the economy.
There is also wide variation in the use of hashtags by the news organizations studied. The hashtag symbol (#) is used before key words to categorize tweets and helps facilitate searches within Twitter. Clicking on a hashtag will show all the tweets in a category. There was significant variation in the use of hashtags across […]
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 […]