Our latest poll finds most support for fracking in the Midwest and South, the least support in the West and Northeast.
From The Changing TV News Landscape, a chapter in our recent State of the News Media report.
In the last presidential campaign, journalists were responsible for only 27% of the information that voters heard about the candidates — while nearly 50% came from the politicians themselves.
Who runs the news cycle? Who controls the flow of information? Watch this video for a 5-minut explanation of how the role of the press has changed.
Click through for the most recent data points (and trend lines) on:
- National satisfaction
- Personal finances
- Economic conditions
- Presidential approval
- Republican and Democratic party favorability
- Public opinion on gay marriage, abortion and gun control
- Tech device ownership
- Social networking use
- Internet penetration
- Trends on marriage, boomerang kids and parental time use
In 2012 LA Weekly surpassed the Village Voice to become the largest circulating alt-weekly in the U.S. Our State of the News Media website has more just-released numbers on circulation for newspapers and magazines here.
Our interactive graph shows opinion of same-sex marriage by some Christian denominations…and by party, gender, age, race and liberal/conservative lean. Click through the different variations here.
Where do you get your news?
From a newspaper? Television? The radio? From a digital source, like social media or a news site? Perhaps all of the above.
In 2012, 39% of respondents got news online or from a mobile device “yesterday,” (the day before they participated in the survey) up from 34% in 2010.
Though “traditional” media may be declining as a primary source for news, online news has been on an incline since 2006. A further breakdown shows that 19% of respondents got news from social media and 16% did so from e-mail, while 8% said they’d listened to a podcast.
More digital developments from the State of the News Media report: http://pewrsr.ch/114ozuY
Circulation stabilized in 2012 for daily papers, and Sunday circulation grew, according to our new State of the News Media report.
The New York Times’ take on this year’s State of the News Media report:
With shorter stories and scarce coverage of politics and government, local television newscasts in the United States, like local newspapers before them, are suffering from “shrinking pains,” according to thePew Research Center.
“This adds up to a news industry that is more undermanned and unprepared to uncover stories, dig deep into emerging ones or to question information put into its hands,” the report’s main author, Amy Mitchell, wrote in an introduction.
Our tenth annual STATE OF THE NEWS MEDIA report:
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 impact has ranged from newspapers where cutbacks in newsroom staffs have put industry employment down 30% since 2000, to local television where news stories have shrunk in length and sports, weather and traffic now account for 40% of the content.
The report says this adds up to a news industry that is more undermanned and unprepared to uncover stories, dig deep into
emerging ones or to question information put into its hands.
If you’re also on Twitter, follow the discussion at this hashtag:#Stateofthemedia
Attention all journo nerds, data wonks, hacks/hackers and old-school ink-slingers: It’s here! Our annual landmark report on journalism, the media, news consumption and business trends is officially out. We’ll be teasing out some key findings here over the next few days, but don’t hesitate to dig into the site and explore.
