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May 21, 2013 - Welcome to Fact Tank, a new, real-time platform from the Pew Research Center, dedicated to finding news in the numbers.
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Mar 26, 2013 - As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on two same-sex marriage cases, and with several other high-profile cases on its docket, the court's favorability rating remains close to an all-time low.
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Mar 18, 2013 - In the news media, a continued erosion of reporting resources has converged with growing opportunities for newsmakers, such as political figures, government agencies, companies and others, to take their messages directly to the public. The public, for its part, is not very aware of the financial struggles that have led to the news industry's cutbacks in reporting, but nearly one-in-three (31%) say they have stopped turning to a particular news outlet because it no longer provides the news they were accustomed to getting. These are among the major findings in the Pew Research Center's 2013 State of the News Media report, its 10th annual report on the health and status of American journalism.
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Mar 12, 2013 - The vast majority of gun owners say that having a gun makes them feel safer. And far more today than in 1999 cite protection – rather than hunting or other activities – as the main reason they own guns.
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Feb 21, 2013 - If the president and Congress cannot reach a deficit reduction agreement before the deadline, 40% of Americans say it would be better to let the automatic spending cuts go into effect, while 49% say it would be better to delay the cuts.
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Feb 11, 2013 - The report follows a year-long effort to identify newspaper successes in the search for new business models. This report analyzes four such dailies whose executives explained, in detail, the motivation and strategy behind their experiments and shared internal data about the results with the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Feb 06, 2013 - The latest update of the Pew Research Center’s regular News IQ quiz uses a set of 13 pictures, maps, graphs and symbols to test knowledge of current affairs.
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Jan 31, 2013 - Trust in the federal government remains mired near a historic low, while frustration with government remains high and for the first time, a majority of the public says that the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedoms.
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Dec 31, 2012 - See findings from this year’s surveys that told us a bigger story about the trends shaping our world, including politics, the economy, the rise of social media, education and other key issues.
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Dec 21, 2012 - In the wake of the Newtown shootings, public opinion on gun control has shown only modest change since July.
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Dec 21, 2012 - The public’s news interests were very much focused on domestic developments this year, with the election outcome, last week’s horrific school shooting and Hurricane Sandy leading the list of the top stories of 2012.
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Dec 17, 2012 - Americans are evenly divided over whether the Newtown shootings reflect broader problems in society or are just isolated acts of troubled individuals.
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Dec 17, 2012 - Take a look at Pew Research Center’s top findings of the year that told us a bigger story about the trends shaping our world.
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Dec 17, 2012 - As the nation learns more about the tragic shootings that killed 27 school children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school, the Pew Research Center has put together its data on public opinion on gun control and gun rights.
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Dec 14, 2012 - As fighting in Syria rages on, the public continues to say that the U.S. does not have a responsibility to do something about it. A new Pew Research survey also finds little change in the public's sympathies in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Dec 14, 2012 - As fighting in Syria rages on, the public continues to say that the U.S. does not have a responsibility to do something about it. A new Pew Research survey also finds little change in the public's sympathies in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Nov 26, 2012 - Barack Obama won 60% of the vote among those younger than 30, down from 66% in 2008, but his youth support may have been an even more important factor in his victory this year.
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Nov 19, 2012 - Nearly identical percentages of Republicans (36%) and Democrats (35%) say they very closely followed the debate over the automatic spending cuts and tax increases that will take effect at the beginning of next year unless the president and Congress act.
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Nov 15, 2012 - A new infographic looks at the previous five presidential races and Pew Research Center's record in predicting the vote.
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Nov 15, 2012 - Many voters say the 2012 presidential election campaign was more negative than usual and had less discussion of issues than in most previous campaigns. Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reports voter gave mixed grades to the candidates, the consultants, the press and the pollsters.
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Nov 13, 2012 - Postelection talk of "lessons learned" is often exaggerated and misleading, and so it is in 2012, writes Pew Research President Andrew Kohut.
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Nov 12, 2012 - While support for gay marriage is on the rise nationwide, there are wide regional differences in the level of support, which Pew Research finds strongest in New England and weakest in the South.
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Nov 07, 2012 - Barack Obama retained enough support from key elements of his base to win reelection, even as he lost ground nationally since 2008. In particular, Obama maintained wide advantages among young people, women, minorities, and both the less affluent and the well-educated, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Nov 05, 2012 - Overall, 47% say they have been following news about the candidates for the 2012 presidential election very closely, down modestly from 52% a week ago, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Nov 04, 2012 - Barack Obama has edged ahead of Mitt Romney in the final days of the presidential campaign. Obama holds a 48% to 45% lead among likely voters. The Pew Research Center's final estimate of the national popular vote is Obama 50% and Romney 47%, when the undecided vote is allocated between the two candidates.
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Nov 01, 2012 - The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press states a sizable minority of adults choose not to vote or are unable to vote. They will affect the outcome of the presidential election by their absence. Who are they?
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Oct 31, 2012 - Just as the presidential race is deadlocked, the candidates are running about even when it comes to the ground game. Voters report being contacted at about the same rates by each campaign. And neither candidate has a clear advantage among early voters, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Oct 29, 2012 - As the presidential campaign enters its final week, the race is even among likely voters: 47% favor Barack Obama and the same percentage supports Mitt Romney. While Romney holds a turnout advantage, Obama leads on many personal characteristics and issues, reports the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Oct 25, 2012 - Democrats are more likely to contribute online or from their cell phone, while Republicans are more likely to contribute in person, by phone call, or via regular mail, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
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Oct 24, 2012 - View a Pew Research presentation tracking the shifts in public views on the issues, the makeup of the electorate and how the campaigns are engaging voters.
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Oct 23, 2012 - Republicans express increasingly positive opinions about the presidential campaign and are now about as likely as Democrats to view the campaign as interesting and informative, according to a new Pew Research study.
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Oct 18, 2012 - A new Pew Research survey finds increasing public pessimism about developments in the Middle East and more support for tough policies to deal with Iran’s nuclear program and economic issues with China.
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Oct 18, 2012 - What does the public at large think about the issues raised in the second presidential debate? Here's what Pew Research surveys have shown.
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Oct 15, 2012 - Two-thirds of Americans now say there is solid evidence of global warming and an increasing proportion also say that the rise in the earth's temperature has mostly been caused by human activity, finds the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Oct 15, 2012 - Fully 41% of voters say Obama will do better, while 37% expect Romney to prevail, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. This stands in stark contrast to expectations prior to the first presidential debate two weeks ago, which voters expected Obama to win by a 51%-29% margin.
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Oct 01, 2012 - Fully two-thirds of voters (67%) correctly identify Mitt Romney as the candidate who said 47% of the public is dependent on government and more than half of them (55%) have a negative reaction, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Sep 27, 2012 - There are signs that television news -- like the print news sources before it -- may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers. Online and digital news consumption continues to increase, driven by expanding use of mobile devices and the rise of social networking.
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Sep 17, 2012 - Four-in-ten Americans say they are closely following the news about the attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East. Those following have much more positive opinions about Barack Obama's handling of the situation than Mitt Romney's comments on the crisis.
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Sep 11, 2012 - Partisan differences in views of economic news are wider than ever. Just 15% of Democrats say recent economic news is mostly bad, compared with 60% of Republicans and 36% of independents, according to a new Pew Research study.
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Sep 06, 2012 - Four years ago, voters' descriptions of Barack Obama focused on his newness on the political scene and "change" was the most frequently-used positive term. According to a new Pew Research/Washington Post poll released today, the public's descriptions now reflect the mixed views of his presidency.
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Sep 05, 2012 - Asked for their one-word impression of Joe Biden, more people use negative than positive words to describe the vice president. Many of the negative words disparage Biden's competence and performance, according to a new Pew Research/Washington Post poll.
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Sep 05, 2012 - The public paid far less attention to this year's Republican convention in Tampa, reports the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Among those who watched at least a little of the event last week, 20% said Clint Eastwood's speech was the highlight of the event and 17% said the same for Mitt Romney's speech.
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Aug 29, 2012 - As Paul Ryan prepares to accept his nomination as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate, the American public has a mixed impression of him.
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Aug 27, 2012 - As the Republican convention gets underway, more Americans express interest in learning about what's in the GOP platform than in speeches by either Mitt Romney or his running mate, Paul Ryan.
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Aug 24, 2012 - Do your views align more with Republicans, Democrats or Independents? Answer 12 questions in a new Pew Research Center quiz to learn where you fit on the political spectrum, just in time for the party conventions. Explore how you compare to other Americans by age, gender, race and religion.
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Aug 23, 2012 - The portrayal in the news media of the character and records of the two presidential contenders has been as negative as any campaign in recent times, and neither has enjoyed any advantage over the other. A new report from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism looks at the main media narratives and whether they are breaking through with voters.
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Aug 23, 2012 - Following Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin's controversial comments about abortion, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press looks at previous public opinion reports on abortion among Democrats and Republicans and in the campaign.
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Aug 22, 2012 - The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press finds the Republican and Democratic conventions still give the parties a chance to define their presidential candidates and spark public interest in the campaign. In 2008, notably, both conventions attracted sizable audiences, especially among their own partisans.
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Aug 21, 2012 - Paul Ryan's selection to the GOP ticket has put the issue of Medicare squarely on the campaign agenda, a new Pew Research Center report finds. The public is aware of a proposal to gradually shift Medicare to a system of vouchers and is, on balance, more opposed than supportive of the idea. The public offers a relatively negative assessment of Mitt Romney's choice of Ryan, while views of Joe Biden's performance are even more negative.
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Aug 06, 2012 - According to a new report from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, nearly eight in 10 Americans are following coverage of the Olympic Games in London. Seventy-three percent say they watched the games on television, 17% say they have watched online, and 12% say they have followed coverage on social media sites.
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Jul 23, 2012 - About half of the public says they very closely followed news about the deadly shooting rampage shortly after midnight Friday in a Colorado movie theater, making this one of the most closely followed stories so far in 2012.
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Apr 12, 2012 - Nearly three quarters of Americans say they follow local news closely most of the time, whether or not something important is happening. These news enthusiasts are more wedded to their local newspapers than others. Yet, younger local news followers differ in some important ways, including less reliance on local papers -- a potential sign of changes to come in the local news environment.
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Mar 30, 2012 - The controversy over the killing of Trayvon Martin has highlighted a range of issues that include treatment of blacks by local police departments, the state of race relations in the U.S. and news coverage of African Americans. Surveys by the Pew Research Center in recent years found that African Americans have had markedly different perceptions than whites when it came to these subjects.
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Mar 27, 2012 - The growing controversy over the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida was the public's most followed story last week, though African Americans were more than twice as likely as whites to cite it. The gap between black and white attentiveness to news about the story follows a pattern seen in other stories that raised questions about race and the law dating back more than 20 years.
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Dec 14, 2011 - People looking for information about local restaurants and other businesses say they rely on the internet, especially search engines, ahead of any other source. Newspapers, both printed copies and the websites of newspaper companies, run second behind the internet as the source that people rely on for this information.
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Nov 14, 2011 - Twitter has been embraced by news organizations today but is used in limited ways, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University. The study addresses questions about how news outlets use the social media tool to share, gather and curate information.
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Sep 22, 2011 - Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has been tracking since 1985. However, news organizations are more trusted sources of information than are many other institutions, including government and business.
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Mar 31, 2011 - The public is generally aware of basic facts about several recent national and international news stories, but is much less knowledgeable about current politics in Washington, according to the Pew Research Center’s latest News IQ survey.
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Mar 11, 2011 - In a recent survey, fully 90% of the public said that they were hearing mostly bad news about gas prices. Reaching this threshold is a rare occurrence, as polls typically focus on current issues with considerable disagreement. But there are some things that 90% of Americans agree on.
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Sep 12, 2010 - Instead of replacing traditional news platforms, Americans are increasingly integrating new technologies into their news consumption habits according to a report from The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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 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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 - 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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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.
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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.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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Aug 03, 2006 - Results of the biennial news consumption survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Mar 13, 2006 - PEJ;s 2006 annual report examining the state of the American media.
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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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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.
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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.
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