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    Part 4. Activities and trends: The different activities men and women do online and how their participation rates are changing do online and how their participation rates are changing.

    Background The Pew Internet Project has been tracking internet users’ participation in online activities since we began polling in March 2000.   We have asked about nearly 94 web activities over that time. Two of them, email use and news gathering, have been included in every survey. We have polled other activities intermittently, from about 6 […]

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    Information Is a Conduit to Help

    Getting information means getting help for the big and small challenges people encounter. On the face of things, getting one’s car repaired appears as easy as opening the phone book and looking for a mechanic. Finding a job might seem as straightforward as looking at the want ads, going to a job fair, or to […]

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    The News Agenda

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? The News Agenda When it came to story selection, or news agenda, the commuter tabloids offer greater breadth. Using their “mini-story” length, we were struck by the degree to which readers could get the basics of the news on […]

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    The Examiner

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? The Examiner So where does the Washington Examiner, the independent tabloid, fall? As mentioned above, it has more pages and more stories than the other tabloids. It also does not make the same appeal to younger readers with cover […]

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    The Methodology

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? Methodology The print media—tabloids and broadsheets—were subject to a specific methodological approach regarding sampling and selection and coding. In all, the study examined some 2,321 stories. This included 981 newspaper-owned tabloid stories, 634 independent-owned tabloids stories and 706 broadsheet […]

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    Topline

    New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? Topline Total n = 2,321 Note: Totals may not equal 100 due to rounding. Number of Stories per Paper in Sample Outlet # of stories Boston Metro 321 Boston Globe 222 DC Express 367 DC Examiner 634 * Washington […]

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    Sourcing, Viewpoints and Stakeholders in Sports Reporting

    Sourcing, Viewpoints and Stakeholders in Sports Reporting One way to assess the quality of journalism is to look at sourcing. Specifically, the critical questions are how transparent is the sourcing, how deep is the sourcing, and what is the range of views offered in the story? To better understand sourcing, we took several steps. First, […]

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    Gender on the Page

    Gender on the Page  One of the most notable trends in sports over the past thirty years is the increasing prominence of women in sports at the amateur, collegiate and professional levels. In 1971, the year before Title IX was passed, there were fewer than 30,000 women competing in college sports. Today, there are nearly […]

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