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Jul 27, 2010 - A special reconstruction by PEJ, which traces the arc of the Shirley Sherrod story point by point and explains the questions raised by the incident.
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Jul 27, 2010 - The fallout from the firing of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod and the one-year anniversary of the controversial arrest of African American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., have put race back in the news. How much coverage do African Americans receive? What role did race play in coverage of the Obama Administration? A new study examining media coverage of African Americans in the first year of the Obama presidency offers answers.
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Jun 23, 2010 - The drive for health care reform legislation proved to be the most passionate and polarizing policy fight of Barack Obama’s first year in office, with the public and Congress deeply divided over the initiative. And much of that battle played out through a changing media universe. A new PEJ study, examining 10 months of health care stories, identifies some of the key elements of that coverage.
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Jun 22, 2010 - Imagine a future in which cancer becomes a memory, ordinary people travel in space, and computers carry on conversations like humans. Now imagine a darker future -- a world beset by war, rising temperatures and energy shortages, one where the United States faces a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons. Find out how Americans view the possibilities of the future in a new report by the Pew Research Center.
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Jun 09, 2010 - One in five Americans use digital tools to communicate with neighbors and monitor community developments, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
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May 24, 2010 - While most original reporting still comes from traditional journalists, technology makes it increasingly possible for the actions of citizens to influence a story’s total impact.
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Apr 20, 2010 - The race for Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat started out as a largely drama-free event that generated little media interest. But it ended up as the most surprising and intensely-covered political story in the country. Which candidate got the most favorable attention? How did coverage change over time? How did the local Boston papers differ in their reporting? A new study examining newspaper coverage of the Senate race offers answers.
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Apr 12, 2010 - What do today’s newspaper and broadcast news executives think about the economics of their industry? Are they optimistic for the future? A new survey by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism in association with the American Society of News Editors and the Radio Television Digital News Association offers answers.
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Mar 25, 2010 - Pope Benedict XVI and the Obama administration generated the most religion-related coverage in the U.S. press in 2009, according to a new report from the Pew Forum and the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Mar 15, 2010 - The State of the News Media 2010, the newest annual report on the status and health of American journalism from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, includes a review of the year; two new interactive features; a survey about online economics; a look at online news behavior; an analysis of the eight media sectors and more.
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Mar 01, 2010 - An overwhelming majority of Americans get their news from multiple news platforms. Which media sectors do people in the U.S rely on most? How has the Internet and mobile technology changed the way people consume news? A Pew Research Center survey examines how Internet and cell phone users have transformed news into a social experience.
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Jan 11, 2010 - A new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism investigates where news comes from in today’s rapidly changing media landscape. An examination of local media in Baltimore provides insight on how the U.S. media ecosystem works. What role do new media, blogs and specialty news sites play in the news cycle? Who is breaking news? The study answers these questions and more.
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Dec 29, 2009 - According to the Pew Research Center, the media's top stories generally reflected the public's top interests, but coverage of politics (Kennedy's death, Palin's book, Specter's switch) exceeded the public's willingness to follow.
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Dec 07, 2009 - Hispanics are already the largest minority group in the United States, 16% of the population,—and that percentage is expected to nearly double by the middle of this century. How is this growing population portrayed in the American news media? A new study produced jointly by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Hispanic Center looks at coverage of Hispanics over six months of 2009.
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Oct 30, 2009 - Republican viewers have migrated increasingly to Fox News but Democrats comprise a larger share of the Fox News audience than Republicans do of CNN's audience.
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Oct 08, 2009 - A trio of catastrophes pushed to the top of recent news coverage, again confirming the media's attraction, especially the network news, to natural disasters.
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Oct 05, 2009 - The economic downturn has made headlines for months. How has the press covered the gravest financial crisis since the Great Depression? What elements of the economic story make the most news? Who is driving the coverage? The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism addresses these questions and more in a new report on press coverage of the economy.
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Oct 02, 2009 - The percentage of Americans saying that press criticism of political leaders keeps them honest is nearly as high now as it was in the 1980s, when views of the media were far less negative than they are today.
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Sep 14, 2009 - Just 29% of Americans now say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press' biennial media attitudes survey. Much of the increase in negative attitudes toward the already unpopular news media over the last two years is driven by increasingly unfavorable evaluations by Democrats.
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Aug 12, 2009 - A study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Forum finds that President Barack Obama’s faith-based initiative has so far generated little of the contentious press coverage associated with the program that was put into place by his predecessor, George W. Bush. And the program is not as closely associated with the current president as it was with the man he succeeded.
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Jul 29, 2009 - Coverage of health news is on the rise according to an examination of media coverage from January to June 2009. Which health news topics generated the biggest headlines in 2009? What media sectors pay the most attention to health care? These questions and more are answered in a new study, produced by PEJ and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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May 28, 2009 - The swine flu story quickly topped the American media agenda when the story broke in late April. A new report examines press coverage of the outbreak in several countries.
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May 07, 2009 - The public ranks the internet most useful as a source of information on the virus. Where and how are people finding flu facts online?
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Apr 28, 2009 - How have the news media covered the early days of the Barack Obama presidency? And how does that coverage stack up against that of his predecessors? This study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examines both the tone and focus of Obama’s media narrative and compares it to Bill Clinton’s and George Bush’s in their first two months in office.
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Mar 16, 2009 - The State of the News Media 2009, the newest annual report on the status and health of American journalism from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, takes stock of the industry, identifies major trends, tracks each main media sector, and features a Year in the News content analysis. These plus a study of citizen media sites, a look at new ventures and more.
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Mar 16, 2009 - An analysis of mainstream media coverage in 2008 finds that attention to Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States in April was the single biggest religion story of the year, eclipsing even faith-related controversies surrounding the 2008 presidential election campaign. Overall, religion received about as much coverage as immigration, education, and race- and gender-focused stories.
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Feb 26, 2009 - The growth in readership online has not offset the decline in print for newspapers, according to an analysis of the Pew Research Center's 2008 news media consumption survey.
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Feb 11, 2009 - The corps of journalists covering Washington D.C. at the dawn of the Obama administration is not so much smaller as it is dramatically transformed. And that transformation will markedly alter what Americans know and not know about the new government, as well as who will know it and who will not.
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Feb 03, 2009 - While Rush's syndicated radio show does not have the reach of other conservative favorites like Bill O'Reilly's television program, his audience is by far the most conservative of any program or network tested by a Pew Research survey. It was also the most male.
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Dec 08, 2008 - The Pew Research Center provides a wrapup of possibly overlooked polling trends and end-of-campaign happenings.
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Nov 24, 2008 - At a time when health care is a major public policy issue, how have the U.S. media covered the complex subject of health? How much coverage does it generate? Which aspects get the most scrutiny? What media outlets pay the most attention? This report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Project for Excellence in Journalism examines those questions.
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Nov 20, 2008 - What was the big religion story of the general election, and which candidate got the most coverage? A new study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism in conjunction with the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life examines how the media covered religious matters.
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Nov 13, 2008 - "GOBAMA!" gushed Britain's Daily Mirror the day after Barack Obama's electoral victory. Other newspapers around the world were scarcely less enthusiastic but notes of concern and discord were also registered.
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Oct 31, 2008 - Television remains the dominant source, but the percent of people who say they get most of their campaign news from the internet has tripled since 2004.
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Oct 29, 2008 - How have different press outlets covered the 2008 general election? Do cable news channels have clear ideological differences? How does broadcast coverage compare to print? A study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism focuses on the tone of coverage across media sectors and outlets.
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Oct 22, 2008 - With fewer than two weeks left before election day, how has the press covered the race for president? How has the tone of McCain’s coverage compared with Obama’s, or Palin’s. What got covered, and why? A new PEJ study from the conventions through the last debate offers answers.
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Oct 10, 2008 - The 2008 race for the White House has once again seen intensifying complaints about media bias. A PEJ review offers an historical perspective on the evolution of the tenuous relationship between press and political leaders.
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Sep 25, 2008 - How do the news media cover the issue of immigration? This study, produced in collaboration with the Brookings Institution and The University of Southern California Norman Lear Center, reveals the uneven, and episodic nature of the media's approach, based on a close look at the year 2007.
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Sep 22, 2008 - Since being named to the GOP ticket by John McCain, Sarah Palin has generated extensive coverage of many aspects of her background, her record in public office and her family life. But what are voters learning from the media about the Alaska Governor’s religious faith and beliefs?
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Sep 15, 2008 - With roughly seven weeks left until Election Day, which candidate has the edge online, and how so? A new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism finds both campaigns' official sites are now quite advanced.
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Aug 22, 2008 - The Beijing Olympics gave the media an opportunity to report on the athletic competition and life inside the world’s most populous nation. So exactly what—and who—got covered in the U.S. press? And how did the story differ in different nations? This study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examines these questions.
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Aug 18, 2008 - According to a new study of media content by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, the slowing economy has replaced Iraq as the second most intensely covered story so far in 2008. However, it still trails far behind the presidential campaign.
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Aug 17, 2008 - The 2008 biennial news consumption survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds four distinct segments in today's news audience: Integrators, Net-Newsers, Traditionalists and the Disengaged.
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Jul 21, 2008 - It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter. There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of specialized subjects. These are just some of the changes documented in a new report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism that examines the resources in American newsrooms at a critical time.
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Jul 10, 2008 - This report from the Pew Forum and the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that media coverage of religion in the presidential primary campaign from January 2007 through April 2008 rivaled coverage of race and gender combined.
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May 29, 2008 - What were the dominant personal narratives conveyed in media coverage of the presidential candidates? Which contenders fared best in the press and how critical was that coverage in influencing public opinion? How did those candidate story lines change over time? A new study of the 2008 primary season by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examines these questions.
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May 08, 2008 - In a survey last year, Americans named Jon Stewart one of the nation’s most admired journalists, despite the Comedy Central host’s insistence that’s not what he does. A new content analysis of 136 episodes of "The Daily Show" by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examines the intersection of comedy and news that is the key to the show’s success.
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May 06, 2008 - The relationship between the relatively new pope and the hurting U.S. church was the primary story line in news reports of the pontiff's visit.
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Apr 23, 2008 - How has the 119-year-old Wall Street Journal changed since the Australian media magnate took over the paper on Dec. 13, 2007? A Project for Excellence in Journalism examination has the numbers.
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Mar 26, 2008 - In the history of the Iraq conflict, May 24, 2007 may not go down as a red letter date; but it marked a turning point in media coverage of the third-longest war in U.S. history, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Mar 17, 2008 - The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than it was a year ago. And the problems, increasingly, appear to be different than many experts have predicted, according to the State of the News Media 2008 report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Mar 17, 2008 - A new Pew Research Center survey of national and local reporters, producers, editors and executives finds soaring economic woes eclipse traditional worries about quality of coverage and credibility.
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Mar 12, 2008 - The Pew Research Center reports that public awareness of the number of American military killed in Iraq has declined sharply since last August along with news coverage of the war.
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Jan 10, 2008 - It wasn't quite "Dewey Defeats Truman," but after the Jan. 8 Granite State primary confounded many pollsters and pundits, a key story in coverage of the McCain and Clinton victories was the media's proclivity to predict and pre-analyze the results.
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Dec 20, 2007 - With the apparent tightening Democratic contest between Clinton and Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential campaign overwhelmed the talk universe last week.
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Dec 19, 2007 - The Pew Research Center released a compilation of the top 15 stories in which public opinion played a significant role, and the year's most notable "non-barking dogs."
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Dec 19, 2007 - What image of war did journalists—challenged with reporting events from Iraq—portray to the American public in the first 10 months of 2007? What role did violence play in the coverage? Who did reporters rely on for information? A study of Iraq war coverage addresses these questions.
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Dec 19, 2007 - A report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism about coverage of the Iraq War.
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Dec 03, 2007 - PEJ News Coverage Index: November 25 - 30, 2007
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Nov 28, 2007 - After four years of war in Iraq, journalists reporting from that country give their coverage a mixed but generally positive assessment, and many say the situation there has been worse than the U.S. public has perceived. In a new report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the journalists -- mostly veteran war correspondents -- also describe conditions in Iraq as the most perilous they have ever encountered.
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Nov 19, 2007 - PEJ News Coverage Index: November 11 - 16, 2007.
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Nov 15, 2007 - PEJ Talk Show Index for November 4-9, 2007.
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Nov 08, 2007 - PEJ News Coverage Index for October 28 - November 2.
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Nov 08, 2007 - There isn’t much that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and liberal talker Ed Schultz agree on. But last week, the two syndicated hosts from opposite sides of the political spectrum seemed to find common ground on one hot topic—Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton.
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Oct 29, 2007 - A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
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Sep 12, 2007 - In a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like? A one-week study of a new crop of user-driven news sites by the Project for Excellence in Journalism suggests that the news agenda would be more diverse, more transitory, and often drawn from a very different and perhaps controversial list of sources.
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Aug 23, 2007 - The 2008 Presidential campaign -- with its crowded field and accelerated timetable --emerged as the leading story in the American news media in the second quarter of 2007, supplanting the policy debate over Iraq.
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Aug 23, 2007 - Public interest in news has changed slightly over the last two decades, but in a manner that suggests no meaningful trend. The average reading for the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press' News Interest Index did slip during the 1990s from 30% to 23%, a seemingly noteworthy decrease that represents nearly a fourth of the original level. Had the index continued to slide as much in the new millennium, that change would have suggested a trend of potentially great import. But in the current decade the index has bounced back to precisely its level during the 1980s: 30%.
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Aug 01, 2007 - In light of Rupert Murdoch's purchase of the Wall Street Journal, the PEJ offers an analysis of his track record.
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Jul 19, 2007 - A PEJ backgrounder about the Fairness Doctrine.
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Jul 12, 2007 - The Project for Excellence in Journalism explores presidential candidates' Web sites and what kinds of messages they express.
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Jun 18, 2007 - On June 8 -- the day after the immigration bill suffered a major defeat when its backers failed to get a Senate vote -- there was barely disguised gloating on the part of some talk hosts, according to a PEJ analysis.
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Jun 04, 2007 - The Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual State of the News Media reports identify key trends facing the media.
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Jun 01, 2007 - Belief.com won the 2007 National Magazine Award in "Online General Excellence" despite not being a household name; it may be the new model for online journalism.
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Jun 01, 2007 - The first News Coverage Index Quarterly Report.
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Apr 12, 2007 - A PEJ report about the fallout from the Imus incident.
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Apr 05, 2007 - The State of the News Media 2007 was designed to help users understand news media options available on the Web as well as to assist news outlets in defining the capabilities they have developed so far.
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Mar 12, 2007 - The 2007 edition of the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual State of the News Media report.
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Mar 08, 2007 - Examination of the media's treatment of the Scooter Libby trial.
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Dec 14, 2006 - Project for Excellence in Journalism reports on the outlook for news magazines.
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Sep 11, 2006 - Analysis of news content since Sept. 11, 2001.
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Mar 13, 2006 - PEJ;s 2006 annual report examining the state of the American media.
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Feb 01, 2006 - Use what you know. It’s a seemingly obvious point. But in an institution with scores of employees, multiple areas of focus and more than 50 years of grantmaking, how can we keep track of all that we know so that the accumulated knowledge is fully at our disposal?
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Mar 14, 2005 - The State of the News Media 2005 find that technology is transforming citizens from passive consumers of news produced by professionals into active participants who can assemble their own journalism.
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Apr 19, 2004 - A report from the Pew Hispanic Center finds that many more Latinos get at least some of their news in both English and Spanish.
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Mar 15, 2004 - The annual report on American journalism from the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Oct 01, 2002 - A new command of information born of the Internet is the dominant theme found in interviews with political journalists for this report. Whether it is the flow of political news, the latest polls or the conflicting comments of a candidate, information is now one click away.
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