-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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?
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
Dec 15, 2008 - While just about everyone knows Obama's new secretary of state, fewer than half were generally aware of where the Dow is trading these days. A new Pew News IQ survey provides an updated look at the public's knowledge of political and world affairs.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
Oct 23, 2008 - With less than two weeks to go before Election Day, voters remain riveted to the presidential campaign. But liberal Democrats are leading the way by engaging in far more activism than other partisan and ideological groups, according to the Pew Research Center. The survey also finds new indications of the Internet’s expanding reach in political communication.
Read More
-
Oct 22, 2008 - By a margin of 70%-9%, voters say most journalists want to see Obama, not McCain, win on Nov. 4. Since 1992, voters have consistently believed the media favor the Democratic candidate, but this year's margin is especially wide.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
Feb 06, 2008 - The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press looks at the public's news interests over the past year and finds continuing differences between women and men in the types of news stories that they follow very closely.
Read More
-
Jan 11, 2008 - The internet is living up to its potential as a major source for news about the presidential campaign. Nearly a quarter of Americans say they regularly learn something about the campaign from the internet, almost the double the percentage from a comparable point in the 2004 campaign.
Read More
-
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."
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
Nov 21, 2007 - While the national news media focused heavily on the 2008 presidential campaign last week, the public divided its interest between the campaign and the Iraq war.
Read More
-
Nov 08, 2007 - The 2008 presidential campaign dominated the national news last week, driven in large part by the lively Democratic debate in Philadelphia. Public interest in the campaign was up somewhat from previous weeks with 27% of Americans paying very close attention to campaign news.
Read More
-
Nov 01, 2007 - The California wildfires overshadowed all other news stories last week both in terms of public interest and news coverage. Four-in-ten Americans followed news about the fires very closely, making it the fourth most closely followed news story of the year.
Read More
-
Oct 25, 2007 - News about the dangers of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection (MRSA) caught the public's attention last week. More than a quarter of Americans paid very close attention to this story and 18% listed it as the single news story they followed more closely than any other – placing it at the top of the weekly news interest index.
Read More
-
Jul 01, 2007 - Iraq has been the most closely followed news story in 18 of the 22 weeks that the Pew Research Center has been tracking public attentiveness to the news.
Read: Summary
View: Full Report (Adobe PDF)
-
Jun 20, 2007 - In spite of their general criticisms of the media, Americans have good things to say about the major broadcast and cable news networks, according to this Pew Research Center survey.
Read More
-
Jun 01, 2007 - The rising price of gasoline replaced the Iraq war last week as the public's most closely followed news story. More than half of the public (52%) paid very close attention to news about gas prices.
Read More
-
May 24, 2007 - The Iraq war continued to dominate both coverage and interest. Fully 30% of the public followed news about the current situation in Iraq very closely and 24% listed this as the single news story they followed more closely than any other.
Read More
-
Mar 12, 2007 - The 2007 edition of the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual State of the News Media report.
Read More
-
Mar 01, 2007 - Anna Nicole Smith's death and the bizarre aftermath continue to fascinate a significant segment of the American public and the mainstream media, according to the latest findings of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Read More
-
Aug 03, 2006 - Results of the biennial news consumption survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Read More
-
Mar 13, 2006 - PEJ;s 2006 annual report examining the state of the American media.
Read More
-
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.
Read More
-
Oct 01, 2004 - A new subsidiary — the Pew Research Center — is one change following Pew's governing transformation. The components of this organization, however, are well known.
Read More
-
Jan 29, 2004 - A 2003 year-end report from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press summarizes nearly 50,000 interviews in the U.S. and worldwide.
Read: Summary
View: Full Report (Adobe PDF)
