Digital News Landscape

The public's muted response on possible government monitoring of their online behavior differs from that of investigative journalists, whose work makes them potential targets for monitoring.

We wanted to analyze the role Facebook played as a means for people to hear about, discuss and share local news. But getting the data we needed wasn't easy.

Here's a rundown of what worked and what didn't in using Twitter for our research of three local news ecosystems.

And more think keeping up with local news has gotten easier than harder, according to our analysis of the media landscape in three U.S. cities.

Pew Research Center's new report examines the local news environment in three U.S. metropolitan areas of different population size and demographic makeup.

As journalism becomes an increasingly digital practice, the data and communications of investigative journalists have become vulnerable to hackers, government surveillance and legal threats. But what are these vulnerabilities – and what steps have investigative journalists taken to protect themselves?

Liberals and conservatives turn to and trust strikingly different news sources. And across-the-board liberals and conservatives are more likely than others to interact with like-minded individuals.

Only 32% of Turks said that the media is having a good influence on the way things are going in Turkey.

There were big differences in the content related to Ferguson on Twitter and Facebook. Was the reason what users wanted from each, or the sites' algorithms?