Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Tom Rosenstiel, Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism Bill Kovach, Chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists After another mean season for the press with scandals involving inaccuracies and plagiarism what should we make of the latest survey data about the news media? By many measures, the public’s view of the […]
SAMPLING AND INCLUSION Two distinct categories of media were studied as part of the 2005 PEJ Media Report Card project. The first, text-based media, included newspapers and Internet news sites. Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted coding for those media. The second, electronic media, included both broadcast network and cable network news. The School of […]
February 2005 Daily Tracking Survey Final Topline, 3/24/05 Data for February 21 – March 21, 2005 Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Internet & American Life Project Sample: n = 2,201 adults 18 and olderInterviewing dates: 02.21.05 – 03.21.05 Margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points for results based on the […]
January 2005 Daily Tracking Survey Final Topline, 2/11/05 Data for January 13 – February 9, 2005 Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Internet & American Life Project Sample: n = 2,201 adults 18 and older Interviewing dates: 01.13.05 – 02.09.05 Margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points for results based […]
A court challenge to the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) contends that efforts to protect children from potentially harmful online content must also respect adults’ rights to privacy and free speech. Parents, educators, technologists, and policymakers have wrestled with the challenge of keeping children safe from objectionable online content since the internet became both a […]
Los Angeles, California The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pacific Council on International Policy co-hosted a meeting on “Islam and Democratization in the Middle East” on April 27, 2005, at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. The roundtable featured one of Egypt’s foremost human rights activists, Saad Eddin […]
The internet’s role in campaigns has grown dramatically since 2000. There are several forces driving people’s increased use of the internet for getting general news and for getting political news in particular: There is a growing number of broadband users. The figure has jumped more than ten-fold since June of 2000, when the Pew Internet […]
Where has the internet fallen short of expectations? Since so many of the experts we contacted were early adopters of the internet, we asked them to think back to their views a decade ago and assess where the use or impact of the internet has fallen short of expectations. Many experts are disappointed that spam […]
Searchers turn to search engines for both important information and trivia. What kinds of searches are people doing? Are they turning to search engines for need-to-know information, or for trivia, or both? Most searchers, 55%, say they are as likely to look for information they consider important as for trivial information. Some 28% of searchers […]