The Indian news market is good and bad. It is good because it is probably one of the handful of markets in the world where newspapers are growing. Print, an older, more mature business is hugely profitable and well-run compared to the younger, chaotic, and completely unprofitable, news television one.

It is against this background that the insights from The State of the News Media 2015, released recently, make for interesting reading. This is the twelfth edition of Pew Research Center’s annual journalism project that focuses on the US market. The Pew Research Center is “a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world,” says its website. Its annual report on the state of journalism in the US usually holds up a mirror to the rest of the world.