---
title: "Acknowledgments"
description: "For our latest survey data about news influencers, read the “News Influencers Fact Sheet.” This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Find related reports online at https://www.pewresearch.org/pew-knight/. Research Galen Stocking, Senior Computational Social […]"
date: "2024-11-18"
authors:
  - name: "Galen Stocking"
    job_title: "Associate Director, Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/galen-stocking/"
  - name: "Luxuan Wang"
    job_title: "Research Associate"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/luxuan-wang/"
  - name: "Michael Lipka"
    job_title: "Associate Director, Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/michael-lipka/"
  - name: "Katerina Eva Matsa"
    job_title: "Director, News and Information Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/katerina-eva-matsa/"
  - name: "Regina Widjaya"
    job_title: "Computational Social Scientist"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/regina-widjaya/"
  - name: "Emily Tomasik"
    job_title: "Research Analyst"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/emily-tomasik/"
  - name: "Jacob Liedke"
    job_title: "Former Research Analyst"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/jacob-liedke/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/11/18/news-influencers-acknowledgments/"
categories:
  - "Influencers"
  - "Media Industry"
  - "News Influencers"
  - "Politics & Media"
  - "Politics Online"
  - "Social Media"
  - "Social Media & the News"
datasets:
  - name: "American Trends Panel Wave 150"
    url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-150/"
---

# Acknowledgments

*For our latest survey data about news influencers, [read the “News Influencers Fact Sheet.”](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/news-influencers-fact-sheet/)*

This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Find related reports online at [https://www.pewresearch.org/pew-knight/](https://www.pewresearch.org/pew-knight/).

#### Research

Galen Stocking, *Senior Computational Social Scientist*
Luxuan Wang, *Research Associate*
Michael Lipka, *Associate Director, News and Information Research*
Katerina Eva Matsa, *Director, News and Information Research*
Regina Widjaya, *Computational Social Scientist*
Emily Tomasik, *Research Assistant*
Jacob Liedke, *Research Analyst*
Sam Bestvater, *Computational Social Scientist*
Christopher St. Aubin, *Research Assistant*
Elisa Shearer, *Senior Researcher*
Kirsten Eddy, *Senior Researcher*
Naomi Forman-Katz, *Research Analyst*
Sarah Naseer, *Research Analyst*
Sono Shah, *Associate Director, Data Labs*
Athena Chapekis, *Data Science Analyst*
William Halm, *Intern*
Connor Jansen, *Intern*
Yen Nguyen, *Intern *

#### Editorial and Graphic Design

David Kent, *Senior Copy Editor*
Kaitlyn Radde, *Associate Information Graphics Designer*
Peter Bell, *Associate Director, Design and Production*
Andrea Caumont, *Associate Director, Digital Outreach*

#### Communications and Web Publishing

Sogand Afkari, *Communications Manager*
Maya Pottiger, *Communications Associate*
Justine Coleman, *Associate Digital Producer*

In addition, the project benefited greatly from the guidance of Meredith Conroy, political science professor at California State University, San Bernardino.

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