Publications

More Americans know the unemployment rate than the level of the Dow.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism estimates that one out of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 no longer does so.

A majority of Americans say it would be very hard to give up their cell phone.

Ambivalent Networkers -- the 7% of Americans most dedicated to their cell phones -- are always connected but don’t always love to hear their phone ring, vibrate or play a downloaded song.

Even though they may love the internet, six-in-ten Americans are not on board with mobile devices.

The Republican Party has continued to lose adherents in 2009. In combined surveys since the start of the year, fewer than a quarter (23%) of Americans identify as Republicans. In total, the GOP has lost roughly a quarter of its base over the past five years. But these losses have not translated into substantial Democratic gains.

In another week with a mixed news agenda, the media provided some cautiously optimistic assessments of the troubled economy and offered some strikingly different treatment of the tax day tea party protests.

Study details patterns and reasons for changes Washington, D.C.—In a noon EDT conference call for journalists on Monday, April 27, 2009, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life will release a new survey that documents the fluidity of religious affiliation in the U.S. and describes in detail the patterns and major reasons […]

New survey data shows that not only is there a participatory class of citizen, but there is a participatory class of patient.

The online community was focused on two subjects that received little attention in the mainstream press last week—the debate over gay marriage and the death of a man at the G20 Summit.