The initial plan was a Cold War classic — brutal yet simple. Two Russian agents would slip onto the property of a turncoat spy in Britain and daub his front door with a rare military-grade poison designed to produce an agonizing and untraceable death. But when the attempted assassination of […] Read more »
Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source
Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16%) for the first time since Pew Research Center began asking these questions. CONT. […] Read more »
Americans Still Prefer Watching to Reading the News – and Mostly Still Through Television
Americans continue to prefer watching the news rather than reading or listening to it, and their viewing loyalties have yet to migrate fully to the web. Instead, the majority of U.S. adults who prefer to watch the news opt for television as their primary news platform, according to a new […] Read more »
The Des Moines Register and CNN announce partnership to produce the Iowa Poll
The Des Moines Register and CNN today announced a partnership, in collaboration with cable operator Mediacom, to jointly produce Iowa Polls related to the 2020 Iowa presidential caucuses. The Des Moines Register and CNN will exercise joint editorial control of the poll, including development of poll questions, the release schedule […] Read more »
Trump isn’t driving the climate change conversation. For a decade, he’s been following it.
As might have been expected, President Trump refused to join the rest of the Group of 20 nations in endorsing a communique about climate change presented over the weekend. By now, nearly two years into the Trump administration, the United States’ climate isolationism is not remarkable. It’s worth remembering, though, […] Read more »
How President Trump helped the media lose the 2018 midterm elections
The tone of media coverage often reflects the outcome of election campaigns. This is not necessarily because opinion follows media content — it seems just as likely that media reflects the state of public affairs. Either way, there is a considerable body of work that finds a correlation between media […] Read more »