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    Podcast Downloading 2008

    As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast.

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    Podcasts Proliferate, But Not Mainstream

    Nearly one in five internet users (19%) has downloaded a podcast to listen to or view later — up from 12% in 2006. But podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few download podcasts on a typical day.

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    Appendix A: Data Sources

    The mathematics achievement tabulations analyzed in this report are based on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Longitudinal School-Level State Assessment Score Database.[12. numoffset=”12″ The NLSLSASD can be downloaded from http://www.schooldata.org/.] The NLSLSASD records in uniform fashion the scores on state achievement tests for more than 80,000 public schools (McLaughlin, 2005). The achievement data are […]

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    Methodology

    “News Coverage of Immigration 2007: A political story, not an issue, covered episodically” is a report based on additional analysis of content already aggregated in PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index (NCI). The NCI examines 48 news outlets in real time to determine what is being covered and what is not. The complete methodology of the […]

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    Methodology

    As a special report for PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index (NCI), The Changing Narrative: How the News Media has Covered the Slowing Economy is based on the aggregated data collected from the creation of the NCI on January 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008. The complete methodology of the NCI is available here. Examining the […]

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    Democrats Highly Critical of New Yorker Cover, Republicans Say It Was Okay

    Summary of Findings As Barack Obama prepared for a major international trip last week, a controversial magazine cover here at home drew more public attention. Fully four-in-ten Americans heard a lot about a satirical cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker magazine showing Obama and his wife in the Oval Office — the candidate […]

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    The Influence of the Web

    Together with the impact of steadily increasing financial pressures, the growing influence of the web is the second major factor driving the change of newsroom culture. News people are stretched to the limit trying to feed the seemingly insatiable appetite of the web for content—immediately. The enormity of its impact on the industry—both real and […]

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    Cell Phones and the 2008 Vote: An Update

    The latest Pew Research Center national survey, including a sample of 503 adults on a cell phone, finds that the overall estimate of voter presidential preference is modestly affected by whether or not the cell phone respondents are included.

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    NBC’s News Leads with the Olympic Games

    The NBC television network paid $894 million for the exclusive rights to televise the Beijing Games. On its multiple platforms, NBC’s planned to broadcast a staggering 3,600 hours of live event coverage. Outside of that event coverage, the two primary news programs on NBC’s broadcast channel, the Today Show and the NBC Nightly News with […]

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    Search Engine Use

    The percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just under one-half (49%).