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    For Public, Oil Prices and Economic News Overshadow Campaign

    Summary of Findings News organizations continued to focus a great deal of attention on the presidential campaign last week, but the public was more interested in news about the rising price of oil and the overall economy. As the price of oil reached a new record, a solid majority (57%) followed news about rising oil […]

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    More Americans Question Religion’s Role in Politics

    Some Americans are having a change of heart about mixing religion and politics. A new survey finds a narrow majority of the public saying that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters and not express their views on day-to-day social and political matters. For a decade, majorities of Americans had […]

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    Declining Majority of Americans Favor Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    While a majority of the American public still favors embryonic stem cell research, surveys by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press show that the size of this majority has declined somewhat in recent years. Indeed, after showing consistent increases in the early […]

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    Methodology

    This analysis examines newspaper coverage of Barack Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s speeches on religion and public life in 2007 and 2008. It looked at national, regional and local newspaper stories archived in the LexisNexis database. For the section on Barack Obama, the time period examined began with the earliest we found linking him with Rev. […]

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    Appendix 1: Survey Methodology

    Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted by ICR/International Communications Research, an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 2,015 Latino respondents age 18 and older, from June 9 through July 13, 2008. Of those respondents, 711 were native born (including Puerto Rico) and 1,302 were foreign born (excluding Puerto […]

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    Changing Content

    What Topics Are Losing Space and Resources If the papers are smaller in the number of pages and the staffs producing them are shrinking as well, what is being lost and what is being gained? The survey and the in-depth interviews suggest that more is disappearing than is being added. The survey used three different […]

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    Use of Cloud Computing Applications and Services

    Some 69% of online Americans use webmail services, store data online, or use software programs such as word processing applications whose functionality is located on the web. Online users who take advantage of cloud applications say they like the co…

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    Methodology

    This study is based on two primary sources of information. The first source is extended face-to-face interviews with editors and other newsroom executives at 15 daily newspapers across the United States. Interviews, conducted by Tyler Marshall, occurred between early November, 2007 and mid-January, 2008. Everyone interviewed for this report spoke initially on background. Where comments […]

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    About the Survey

    Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a nationwide sample of 2,004 adults, 18 years of age or older, from June 18-29, 2008 (1,501 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 503 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 162 who […]

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    II. Hispanic Voter Participation Trends

    Because Latinos are more likely than other Americans to either be under age 18, or non-citizens, or both, their share of the eligible electorate (8.9% in 2007) lags behind their share of the total U.S. population (15.5% in 2007).[2. numoffset=”2″ These results are based on tabulations from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey from November […]