report | Jun 25, 2019

Network News Fact Sheet

Network TV news – appointment viewing for many Americans – saw its audience decline over the past year.

report | Jun 25, 2019

Local TV News Fact Sheet

Local television news programming has shed audience over the past decade, but it still garners more viewers on average than cable and network news programs.

report | Jun 16, 2017

Network News Fact Sheet

Network TV news – appointment viewing for more than 20 million Americans – has experienced relative stability in the size of its audience over the past decade.

report | Jun 1, 2017

Cable News Fact Sheet

Cable TV is home to a set of news channels that have become a destination for political news.

feature | Apr 27, 2017

Searching for News: The Flint water crisis

Many Americans turned to Google to learn about the Flint water crisis. An analysis of aggregated searches over time illustrates how, in today's digital environment, public interest shifts as a story unfolds.

report | Apr 27, 2017

Methodology

This project – using the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, as a case study model – examines the question of how media coverage of a current issue in the news relates to public interest in the issue and its relevance to their own lives.

report | Jul 3, 2015

Methodology: As Greeks head to the polls, the Twitter conversation differs by language

This analysis of the Twitter discussions surrounding the 2015 Greek referendum employed media research methods that combined Pew Research’s content analysis rules with computer coding software developed by Crimson Hexagon (CH). This report is based on examination of about 2.5 million Twitter statements that were identified as being about the Greek developments in light of the July […]

report | May 7, 2015

Methodology: On UK elections, the talk on Twitter is largely negative

This analysis of the Twitter discussions surrounding the 2015 United Kingdom (UK) elections employed media research methods that combined Pew Research’s content analysis rules with computer coding software developed by Crimson Hexagon (CH). This report is based on examination of about 13.5 million Twitter statements that were identified as being about the parties competing for the elections […]

Refine Your Results