Numbers: Our Data Library

For most ethnic groups in America, the ethnic press is preferred for news of home and their ethnic communities here in the U.S. The lone exception is African Americans, the great majority of whom are not immigrants.

Newspaper websites attract the largest share of online advertising, but online companies such as Google are close behind.

Television remains the medium of choice for national and international news, but it has begun to lose ground not only to the Internet but even older media such as radio and newspapers, according to Pew Research Center survey data

The mainstream media is firmly entrenced. Television is by far the most popular news source, followed by Newspapers.

More people report listening to the radio at home, but the car is gaining.

In 2003, the latest year available, 39.6% reported listening to the radio mainly in their homes, just slightly ahead of listening in the car.

Not all media are losing public favor at the same rate. Cable News, local TV news and major national newspapers are suffering more. Network news and local newspapers have fared better recently.

A new spate of tabloid newspapers in the U.S. designed to attract younger readers are not dramatically more likely to cover stories about youthful newsmakers than the old fashioned broadsheets.

A new spate of tabloids aimed at younger readers in the U.S. are far less local than the old fashioned broadsheets. One reason may be they lack their own reporters and rely mostly on wire copy.

Old fashioned broadsheet newspapers tend to have deeper sourcing than their new tabloid rivals, in part because they have longer stories. This, however, is something the new challengers may think is discouraging readers.