Digital News Landscape

A majority of American adults went online in 2008 to keep informed about political developments and to get involved with the election.

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

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

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.

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.

A record-breaking 46% of Americans have already used the internet for politics this election season and Barack Obama's backers have an edge.

Senior Research Fellow Deborah Fallows reports from China on how the earthquake recovery is portrayed on TV and on the internet.

(Read on for an account of how blogs, Twitter, and Google provided news coverage in China this week.)

The internet is living up to its potential as a major source for news about the presidential campaign. Nearly a quarter of Americans (24%) say they regularly learn something about the campaign from the internet, almost the double the percentage from ...