--- title: "The warming relationship between Trump and Univision" description: "Plus, our new research on news consumption, harassment of Palestinian journalists by Israeli authorities." date: "2023-11-16" authors: - name: "Emily Tomasik" url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/the-briefing/the-warming-relationship-between-trump-and-univision/" --- # The warming relationship between Trump and Univision [![](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/prc-logo.png){.aligncenter width=348}](https://www.pewresearch.org/prc-logo/) --- November 16, 2023 # The Briefing **☀️ Happy Thursday!** *This week we look at Univision's approach to covering Trump, our new research on news consumption, and harassment of Palestinian journalists by Israeli authorities.* *[**Sign up here!**](https://www.pewresearch.org/sign-up-for-the-briefing/)* *The Briefing will be on hiatus until Thursday, Nov. 30.* *Happy Thanksgiving! *🦃🌽 **In today*’*s email:** - **Top story:** The warming relationship between Trump and Univision - **New from Pew Research Center:** Our latest survey on Americans’ news consumption habits on social media and other platforms, plus new analysis of audience and economic data for newspapers and digital news - **In other news:** Palestinian journalists say they have been harassed by Israeli authorities - **Looking ahead:** Social media's largest companies must face child safety lawsuit - **Chart of the week:** A rapidly growing share of TikTok users get news on the platform 🔥 **Top story** **Former President Donald Trump** has been critical of Spanish-language news giant **Univision **in past election cycles, but that appears to be changing after Mexican media company Grupo Televisa merged with Univision in 2021. Trump recently [hosted the company’s new executives at Mar-a-Lago](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/14/trump-univision-biden-election/) and granted Univision [an hourlong exclusive interview](https://www.univision.com/univision-news/politics/donald-trump-exclusive-univision-interview). The average **number of TVs tuned in to Univision declined **in 2022 across all three time slots for national news, according to our [latest analysis of Comscore data](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/hispanic-and-black-news-media/#audience). There was an 11% decline for the evening news time slot, from an average of about 804,000 TVs in 2021 to roughly 714,000 last year. There was also a 16% decline in the late-night news slot, and a 7% decline in the morning news slot. 🚨 **New from Pew Research Center** This week, we released two fact sheets examining the shares of Americans who get [news from various platforms](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/news-platform-fact-sheet/) as well as [specific social media sites](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet/). We also used this new data to update our analysis of how many Americans [get news on TikTok](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/15/more-americans-are-getting-news-on-tiktok-bucking-the-trend-seen-on-most-other-social-media-sites/). - Nearly six-in-ten Americans say they **prefer to get news from a digital device** (58%), higher than the share who say they prefer TV (27%). Even fewer Americans prefer radio (6%) or print (5%). - **Facebook outpaces other social media sites** in the share of Americans who regularly get news there, although YouTube is close behind. Three-in-ten U.S. adults say they regularly get news on Facebook, while 26% say the same about YouTube. - But [the share of Americans who regularly get news on TikTok](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/15/more-americans-are-getting-news-on-tiktok-bucking-the-trend-seen-on-most-other-social-media-sites/) has** surged** **from 3% in 2020 to 14% in 2023**. We also released two fact sheets last week looking at data on audience and economics for the [newspaper industry](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers/) and [digital news](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/digital-news/). - In 2022, estimated total **U.S. daily newspaper circulation** (print and digital combined) was 20.9 million for both weekday and Sunday, **down 8% and 10% respectively from 2021**. - The **average number of unique **monthly **visitors to the top digital news websites has fallen** from 32.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 to 27.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2022. The **length of the average visit to these sites also is getting shorter**. Explore all the fact sheets from our [State of the News Media project](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpewresearch.us1.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D434f5d1199912232d416897e4%26id%3Da0a7718a84%26e%3D7dd364de94&data=05%7C01%7Ccstaubin%40pewresearch.org%7Cfd1c19d46a26445608ee08dbb553db3e%7C95cf77fc02904b23b257df0a6fd7595d%7C0%7C0%7C638303144006107563%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PGL2aS4cmZemaRWoKEWGKb62UwgwBIB05DypBLLBmKU%3D&reserved=0). - 📌 **In other news** - Public broadcasters in **Rhode Island** to [merge pending state and FCC approval](https://current.org/2023/11/rhode-island-public-broadcasters-to-merge/) - [Trump files legal motion](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-backs-requests-tv-coverage-his-federal-criminal-trial-court-filing-2023-11-11/) supporting media requests for** live TV coverage of his federal trial** - **Palestinian journalists** say they have been [harassed and intimidated by Israeli authorities](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/palestinian-journalists-israel-intimidation-harassment-rcna124751) - **Former Fox News reporter **says the [network fired him](https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-fox-news-reporter-jason-donner-claims-network-fired-him-for-calling-out-jan-6-lies) for his opposition to their Jan. 6 coverage - [Meta begins to allow political ads](https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-allows-ads-claiming-rigged-2020-election-on-facebook-instagram-309b678d?mod=followamazon) on Facebook and Instagram that **question the legitimacy of the 2020 election** on Facebook and Instagram - **South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol** [clamps down on what he calls “fake news,”](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/world/asia/south-korea-fake-news-disinformation.html) raising alarm among liberal opposition and journalists 📅 **Looking ahead** Several social media giants will face a lawsuit alleging that their platforms are addictive and have adverse mental health effects on children, after a federal judge [rejected a motion to dismiss the case](https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/14/23960956/meta-google-tiktok-snap-social-media-addiction-lawsuits). A pair of 2023 Pew Research Center surveys [look at U.S. adults' and teens’ views of social media policies aimed at minors](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/31/81-of-us-adults-versus-46-of-teens-favor-parental-consent-for-minors-to-use-social-media/). Adults are much more likely than teens to **favor parental consent for minors to use social media **(81% vs. 46%), and to support social media companies **setting limits on how much time minors can spend on their sites** (69% vs. 34%). 📊 **Chart of the week** Our chart of the week comes from our updated analysis of [how many Americans get news from TikTok](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/15/more-americans-are-getting-news-on-tiktok-bucking-the-trend-seen-on-most-other-social-media-sites/). Users of TikTok** **are now** just as likely to get news from TikTok as Facebook users are to get news from Facebook**: 43% of each site’s users say they regularly get news there. Among 11 sites included in the survey, only X (formerly known as Twitter) has a higher share of users who regularly get news from the site (53%). ![Charts that show the share of TikTok users who regularly get news there has nearly doubled since 2020.](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SR_23.11.15_news-on-tiktok_2.png?w=640) --- *👋 That's all for this week. * The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Sarah Naseer, Christopher St. Aubin, Luxuan Wang and Emily Tomasik. It is edited by Katerina Eva Matsa, Michael Lipka and Mark Jurkowitz, and copy edited by Anna Jackson. *Do you like this newsletter? 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