LibGuides: Mass Communication and Media: Websites

Websites for Public Opinion Research

Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press is an independent, non-partisan public opinion research organization.
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Monthly polls focus on politics and public policy. A weekly survey gauges the public's interest in and reaction to major news events.
Kaiser Family Foundation
The Foundation conducts research concerning the relationship between entertainment media and health, with a special focus on children and media.
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Major research projects include such topics as how teens use the Internet for health information; the amount of time children of all ages spend watching TV, playing video games, using computers, and reading; sexual messages on television; how health policy issues are portrayed on TV's medical dramas; what viewers learn from health information in entertainment shows; the role of media in childhood obesity; and the impact of media-based public health campaigns. The Foundation also studies public policies on related media topics, including public service advertising on television, TV ratings, the V-Chip, and the impact of Internet filtering.
Gallup
Gallup measures and tracks public opinion about political, social, and economic issues of the day, including highly sensitive or controversial subjects.

Newspaper Association of America
NAA is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 newspapers and their multiplatform businesses in the United States and Canada. NAA members include daily newspapers, as well as non-dailies, other print publications and online products.
Headquartered near Washington, D.C., in Arlington, Va., the association focuses on the major issues that affect today's newspaper industry: public policy/legal matters, advertising revenue growth and audience development across the medium's broad portfolio of products and digital platforms.
Nielsen
Provides information and some research results on media consumption.
Poynter Institute
A resource for the teaching and training of journalists and media leaders; also provides media news and perspectives on journalism.

American Journalism Review
Provides features, opinions and articles about all aspects of various types of media.
Columbia Journalism Review
This website provides reports about and criticism of the media.
Online Journalism Review
Blog focusing on journalism and digital media issues.