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  • Digital Divide Figure 6: Sources African Americans and Hispanics report most accurately cover their community’s people and issues

    Source African Americans Hispanics Local news station 19%* 5% National broadcast TV news program 0% 1% 24-hour news 6% 8% Online-only sources 1% 1% Newspapers [...]

    September 9, 2014
  • Digital Divide Figure 5: African Americans’ and Hispanics’ assessments of how accurately the news media portrays their communities

    Accuracy rating African Americans Hispanics Completely 6% 16% Very much 19% 17% Moderately 37% 41% Slightly 28% 20% Not at all 10% 5%

    September 9, 2014
  • Digital Divide Figure 4: Sources African Americans and Hispanics report most regularly cover their community’s people and issues

    Source African Americans Hispanics Local news station 23%* 7% National broadcast TV news program 1% 1% 24-hour news 5% 10% Online-only sources 1% 1% Newspapers [...]

    September 9, 2014
  • Digital Divide Figure 3: How regularly African Americans and Hispanics think their communities are covered in the news media

    Perceived frequency of coverage African Americans Hispanics Very regularly 23% 21% Somewhat regularly 28% 28% Occasionally 43% 46% Never 3% 3%

    September 9, 2014
  • Digital Divide Figure 1: Technology use is high, but confidence in coverage of African Americans’ and Hispanics’ communities is low

    % Who… African Americans Hispanics Find it easier now to keep up with news generally 58% 57% Find it easier now to keep up with [...]

    September 9, 2014
  • Digital Divide Figure 2: African Americans and Hispanics find it hard to keep up with community news

    Type of news African Americans Hispanics News in general 58% 57% News about the African American community 39% 0 News about the Hispanic community 0 [...]

    September 9, 2014
  • Paywall research

    Audience research done before launching paywall Percent of dailies with paywalls Conducted focus groups 29% Surveyed audience 28% Consulted academics 15% Solicited advice from other [...]

    September 4, 2014
  • Texas Tribune events revenue

    Year Events revenue 2010 $176,005 2011 $704,077 2012 $887,550 2013 $1,131,545

    August 6, 2014
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