Publications

Summary of Findings On the eve of Barack Obama’s major speech on race and politics, most Americans said they had heard at least a little about the videos showing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright making racially-charged statements to his Chicago congregation. At the time of the survey, however, there was greater public awareness of other recent […]

News remains an important part of what was once simply called radio. In many ways, indeed, the tradition of listening to the news — aural transmission is the original way people got news — is among the most enduring.

Ratings of how things are going in Iraq have improved over the past year, but a clear majority now say the initial decision to go to war was wrong.

Summary of Findings A year after the problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military hospitals made major news, the public remains highly critical of the government’s performance in supporting and caring for soldiers who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. Fully 72% say the government does not give enough support to soldiers […]

The financial crisis facing news organizations is so grave that it is now overshadowing concerns about the quality of news coverage, the flagging credibility of the news media, and other problems that have been very much on the minds of journalists over the past decade.

Fewer than one-in-five Americans (17%) now rate the US economy as performing well -- a sharp decline from the already low number (26%) who viewed the economy as in good or excellent state in the first month of 2008

A majority of journalists at national media outlets (62%) say that journalism is heading in the wrong direction.

Only about a third (32%) of Buddhists in the United States are Asian; a majority (53%) are white, and most are converts to Buddhism.

A quarter (23%) of online adults say that photos of them are accessible on the web.