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    1. Regular local voting, community attachment strongly linked to news habits

    Overall, those most engaged in civic life tend to also be the most tapped into local news, but an examination of five aspects of civic life and their relationships to three areas of local news habits finds that attachment to one’s community and regular voting in local elections connect most strongly to local news habits. […]

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    Americans skeptical about the potential use of synthetic blood

    Americans are more worried than excited or enthusiastic about the potential for healthy people to use synthetic blood (63% vs. 36%). And a majority of Americans – roughly six-in-ten – said they would not want synthetic blood substitutes in their own body to improve their abilities, while 35% would be open to it.

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    The Future of Jobs and Jobs Training

    As robots, automation and artificial intelligence perform more tasks and there is massive disruption of jobs, experts say a wider array of education and skills-building programs will be created to meet new demands.

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    African American News Media: Fact Sheet

    Last updated June 2016 Black-oriented news media – one of the long-standing minority news genres in the U.S. – showed little substantive change over the 2014 to 2015 period. The overall number of newspapers aimed at this population – primarily community weeklies – remained steady, but there was some evidence of audience decline, a pattern […]

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    Methodology

    The State of the News Media report uses a range of different methodologies to study the health of the U.S. news industry, including custom analysis of news audience behavior, secondary analysis of industry data and direct reporting to solicit information unavailable elsewhere. State of the News Media 2016 industry data The State of the News […]

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    Audio: Fact Sheet

    Last updated June 2016 The American public’s consumption of audio content, which includes radio news and talk shows in addition to music, sports and other programming, continues to increase. Advances in consumer technologies allow increasing numbers of Americans to choose to listen to radio on a variety of newer platforms, while at the same time, […]

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    3. Users spend more time with content in the morning or late at night

    Mobile technology has allowed consumers to get news anywhere, and at any time, whether at work or home, while commuting or at a sports game. But are there certain times of day when Americans are more apt to engage with longer articles on their phones compared with shorter ones? And how does this match up […]

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