Digital News Landscape

Along with communicating extensively via untethered mobile devices, Twitter users are more likely to consume news and information on these devices as well.

Our colleagues at the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism have developed a New Media Index and are unveiling it today.

TV continues to dominate the media landscape, but the internet now rivals newspapers as a main source for campaign news.

Summary of Findings Many more Americans are turning to the internet for campaign news this year as the web becomes a key source of election news. Television remains the dominant source, but the percent who say they get most of their campaign news from the internet has tripled since October 2004 (from 10% then to […]

The 2008 race for the White House has been dubbed the first Internet election. What presence have the candidates established online? Has one taken more advantage of this new platform? A new PEJ study examines John McCain and Barack Obama’s Web sites to assess the online campaign.

The internet is allowing Americans to stay constantly informed about the news of the day -- on the company dollar - regardless of whether keeping up-to-date is important to their job.

A new kind of news consumer emerges as a quarter of the population blends news sources rather than relying on one platform.

A new Pew Research Center survey finds people using various traditional media at historically low levels. But the more telling findings here are not where people get news but how. In a commentary, PEJ Director Tom Rosenstiel sees the outlines of a new "On Demand" Media Culture.

Overview For more than a decade, the audiences for most traditional news sources have steadily declined, as the number of people getting news online has surged. However, today it is not a choice between traditional sources and the internet for the core elements of today’s news audiences. A sizable minority of Americans find themselves at […]

Beijing Olympics fans are going online to find the videos they want, when they want them.