Q&A: What Pew Research Center’s new survey says about local news in the U.S.
Amy Mitchell, director of journalism research at Pew Research Center, discusses the findings of a new study on America’s local news landscape.
As many newsrooms face declines in revenues and staffing, one difficult choice to make is where to focus coverage and resources. This study asked Americans about the weight of 11 different local news topics in their lives, ranging from needing a daily news fix to having no interest at all, and how easy it is […]
YouTube is vast and constantly changing. In order to craft a manageable and meaningful research project, Pew Research Center limited the scope of data collection to only the most popular channels on the site. These popular channels alone produced a total of 243,254 videos during the first week of 2019, totaling 48,486 hours of content. […]
Majorities of Americans say the tone of political debate in the country has become more negative, less respectful, less fact-based and less substantive in recent years.
Many of these experts pointed out that technology is neither inherently helpful nor harmful. It is simply a tool. They said the real effects of technology depend upon how it is wielded. It can be used to inspire and catalyze change just as easily as it can be used in ways that are detrimental to […]
Along with examining the number of videos posted and languages used by these popular channels, this analysis also sought to gain a deeper understanding of the actual content of the videos these channels produce. However, there are limits to how much information can be gleaned from the categories and descriptions attached to YouTube videos themselves. […]