The Hudson Plane Landing Captures Media Attention
The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not issue a News Index report this week, but the data is available.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The Project for Excellence in Journalism did not issue a News Index report this week, but the data is available.
Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,489 adults, 18 years of age or older, from December 3-7, 2008 (1,126 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 363 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 138 who had […]
The American public has long expressed strong support for Israel. In a survey conducted earlier this month during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, 49% of Americans said they sympathized more with Israel in its dispute with the Palestinians, while just 11% sympathized more with the Palestinians and 15% said they sympathized with neither side. […]
Annual Gadgets Survey 2007 Final Topline, 12/13/07 Data for October 24 – December 2, 2007 Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Internet & American Life Project Sample: n = 2,054 adults 18 and older, including 500 cell phone users Interviewing dates: 10.24.07 – 12.2.07 Margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage […]
Updated February 3, 2014 Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Americans are still fighting over evolution. If anything, the controversy has grown in both size and intensity. In the last decade, debates over how evolution should be taught in schools have […]
Bloggers and the traditional media were both focused on the economy last week, but the online community was just as concerned with a Barack Obama-Rush Limbaugh feud and a practical joke involving a zombie sighting.
Bloggers and the mainstream media alike focused intently on one storyline last week. In its maiden edition, PEJ’s “New Media Index” examines the most discussed news on blogs, user news sites, and other social media and compares it to the mainstream media.
Summary of Findings The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as an outlet for national and international news. Currently, 40% say they get most of their news about national and international issues from the internet, up from just 24% in September […]