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  • MILLRACEETH2: 1 in 10 Millennials are mostly or always offline

    Percentage Almost alwaysor mostly online 51% Mostly or always offline 10% A mix of being onlineand being offline 39%

    August 19, 2015
  • MILLRACEETH3: Fewer African American and Hispanic Millennials engage in online activities

    % All Millennials % Whites % African Americans % Hispanics Checking and sending email 72% 78% 67% 61% Keeping up with what friends are doing [...]

    August 19, 2015
  • MILLRACEETH1: Digital technology usage rates

    Overall Whites African Americans Hispanics Smartphone 94% 93% 95% 91% Tablet 50% 51% 54% 46% Cell phone without an Internet connection 10% 10% 11% 11% [...]

    August 19, 2015
  • JOURNO49a: Effectiveness of skills taught by grad year

    Skill Graduated 1980 or earlier Graduated 1981-95 Graduated 1996-2005 Graduated 2006-15 Media ethics 50.0% 54.8% 55.7% 53.8% Media law 41.5% 49.2% 47.6% 48.0% General education [...]

    July 31, 2015
  • JOURNO49: Effectiveness of teaching skills

    Skill Very ineffective Somewhat ineffective Somewhat effective Very effective Media ethics 1.1% 1.5% 33.6% 53.5% Media law 1.6% 2.5% 34.5% 46.7% General education subject matters [...]

    July 31, 2015
  • JOURNO8b: Who does PR in their jobs

    Task Journalism Commercial Educational Political Entrepreneur Technology Other/prof Percent who do PR / marketing / advertising 21.5% 67.6% 30.2% 47.2% 45.6% 37.6% 19.8%

    July 31, 2015
  • JOURNO52: Skills least prepared in

     Skill Percent HTML 18.3% Business management 14.7% Entrepreneurial skills 13.8% Career development / job-seeking 13.6% Fluency with numbers and data 12.9% Other computer languages 12.6% [...]

    July 31, 2015
  • JOURNO63: Starting salary range

    1980 and before graduates 1981-95 graduates 1996-2005 graduates 2006-15 graduates Less than $20,000 63.5% 44.3% 15.3% 6.3% $20,000 to $24,999 7.0% 17.0% 16.6% 9.5% $25,000 [...]

    July 31, 2015
  • JOURNO8A: Who creates content in their jobs

      Task Journalism Commercial Educational Political Entrepreneur Technology Other/prof Percent who create content 80.3% 48.1% 41.7% 53.9% 63.8% 54.2% 23.7%

    July 31, 2015
  • JOURNO62: Time between graduating and getting full-time job

    1980 and before graduates 1981-95 graduates 1996-2005 graduates 2006-15 graduates Before / right after graduation 51.3% 37.1% 36.2% 33.4% 1-6 months 27.6% 32.2% 34.4% 37.9% [...]

    July 31, 2015
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