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  • JOURNO32: Job security, by employer type

    Employer category Not too secure, or not at all Very or fairly secure Journalism 28.9% 66.2% Commercial 17.1% 79.9% Education 17.9% 78.6% Political 15.8% 80.2% [...]

    July 30, 2015
  • JOURNO17: The biggest challenges to journalism, by employer type

    Challenge Journalism Commercial Educational Political Entrepreneurial Technology Other professions The flood of opinion and false information on the Internet is too great 52.1% 60.0% 59.8% [...]

    July 30, 2015
  • JOURNO14: Is journalism quality improving? Journalists vs non-journalists

    Type of respondent Declined greatly Declined somewhat Remained about the same Improved somewhat Improved greatly Journalists 19% 41% 17% 18% 4% Non-journalists 26% 43% 17% [...]

    July 30, 2015
  • JOURNO7: Is the work you do ‘journalism’? By degree

    Degree type Yes, my work is journalistic Journalism degrees 42.1% Communications (non-journalism) degrees 22.7% Advertising / PR degrees 10.4% All respondents 35.3%

    July 30, 2015
  • JOURNO6: Is the work you do ‘journalism’? By employer

    Employer type Yes, my work is journalistic Journalism employers 72.4% Commercial employers 16.8% Education employers 26.0% Political employers 19.4% Entrepreneurs 33.8% Technology employers 19.5% All [...]

    July 30, 2015
  • JOURNO4: Where people work by degree type

    Employer type Journalism degree Communication degree Advertising/PR degree Other subject degree Journalism employers 41.4% 33.0% 11.0% 26.9% Commercial employers 21.9% 26.7% 43.8% 16.0% Educational employers [...]

    July 30, 2015
  • JOURNO1: Degree types held by journalist survey respondents

    What degrees people earned Degree type Percent ALL JOURNALISM 74.8%* Undergraduate in journalism 56.3% Masters in journalism 18% Undergraduate in TV/radio/film 1.7% Graduate in TV/radio/film [...]

    July 30, 2015
  • JOURNO47: Skills learned in school

    Skill Not at all effective Not very effective Somewhat effective Very effective Writing 0.7% 1.2% 26.2% 66.9% Newsgathering / reporting / interviewing 1.5% 2.3% 31.3% [...]

    July 28, 2015
  • Percentage of news articles, retweets and shares by category in The New York Times

    Share of all articles Twitter retweets Facebook shares World 20% 11% 10% Economy 20% 10% 4% National 16% 22% 9% Sports 16% 4% 4% Arts [...]

    July 23, 2015
  • Who’s talking about fact-checking?

    Democrats Republicans House Senate Mentions 26 57 13 70

    May 8, 2015
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