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What Is News?
What is news? It’s increasingly personalized, but here are some things people still agree on
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- What Is News?
- How Americans decide what is ‘news’ when scrolling through social media
- How Americans decide what is ‘news’ when scrolling through social media
- Information being factual and new are top factors for Americans in deciding if it counts as news
- Information about politics, war is largely considered to be news; updates about celebrities’ lives are not
- 55% of Americans say it’s important that their news sources have political views similar to their own
- Americans are more likely to say news makes them feel negative emotions than positive emotions, except when it comes to feeling informed
- Democrats more likely than Republicans to feel negative emotions about news early in second Trump administration
- What is news? It’s increasingly personalized, but here are some things people still agree on
- Here’s how we found out what Americans think news is
- People’s assessments of information sources as ‘news’ vary dramatically