News Platforms & Sources

The growth in readership online has not offset the decline in print for newspapers.

This speech pulls together Pew Internet findings and analysis about how people get news and relate to news items in the digital age.

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

What was the big religion story of the general election? A new study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism in conjunction with the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life examines how the media covered religious matters.

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.

As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast.

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