--- title: "Twitter is removing headlines and other text from news links on the platform, key facts about radio listeners and the radio industry in the U.S." description: "The Briefing is your weekly update on the world of news and information" date: "2023-08-24" authors: - name: "cstaubin" url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/the-briefing/twitter-is-removing-headlines-and-other-text-from-news-links-on-the-platform-key-facts-about-radio-listeners-and-the-radio-industry-in-the-u-s/" --- # Twitter is removing headlines and other text from news links on the platform, key facts about radio listeners and the radio industry in the U.S. [![](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/prc-logo.png?w=640){.aligncenter width=348}](https://www.pewresearch.org/prc-logo/) --- August 24, 2023 # The Briefing **☀️ Happy Thursday!** *The Briefing updates you on what’s happened and what’s coming in the news and information world – and what our data tells us about it. Not a subscriber yet? [**Sign up here!**](https://www.pewresearch.org/sign-up-for-the-briefing/)* **In today's email:** - **Top story:** Twitter is removing headlines and other text from news links on the platform - **New from Pew Research Center: **Key facts about radio listeners and the radio industry in the U.S. - **Under the radar: **Former Vice journalists launch tech site 404 Media - **Looking ahead: **Cox Media Group is launching a hyperlocal streaming service - **Chart of the week:** Differences in how U.S. journalists and the public use Twitter for news 🔥 **Top story** On Monday, Elon Musk announced that Twitter, recently renamed as X, is [planning to remove headlines and other text from links to news articles](https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musks-x-plans-remove-headlines-links-news-articles-2023-08-22/) that users post on the platform. Instead, the links will now only show an article's main image, limiting the user's ability to see content without clicking the link. In a [2021 Center survey](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/11/15/majority-of-twitter-users-get-news-on-the-site-and-most-see-it-as-an-important-way-to-get-news/), about seven-in-ten Twitter users in the U.S. (69%) said they got news or news headlines on the platform. 🚨 **New from Pew Research Center** A new [Pew Research Center analysis](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/17/for-national-radio-day-key-facts-about-radio-listeners-and-the-radio-industry-in-the-us/) examines key facts about radio listeners and the radio industry in the U.S. for National Radio Day, celebrated Aug. 20. Key findings include: - **About eight-in-ten Americans ages 12 and older (82%) listen to terrestrial radio in a given week, according to Nielsen Media Research data.** Weekly terrestrial radio listenership in the U.S. has remained relatively stable in the last two years after dipping slightly in 2020. - **Nearly half of U.S. adults (47%) sometimes or often get news from radio, our summer 2022 survey found.** In the same survey, just 7% of U.S. adults said they *prefer* radio to other platforms for getting news. - **One-in-five U.S. adults said in a 2018 survey that they often get local news from radio stations. **That was below the share of U.S. adults who say they often get local news from TV stations (38%) but comparable to the share who often get local news from daily newspapers (17%). - 🕵️ **Under the radar** - **Former Vice journalists** [launch tech publication 404 Media](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/business/media/404-media-vice-motherboard.html) - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau [calls for Meta to reverse news ban](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/18/meta-news-ban-canada-wildfires/) amid **Canada wildfires** - How **social media creators** are becoming [popular news sources for young adults](https://www.theverge.com/23836187/gen-z-news-creator-sourcing-tiktok-instagram-lil-tay) - India [blocks independent news outlet](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/india-kashmir-walla-press-freedom-rcna101126) **The Kashmir Walla** - How the** 2023 Pulitzer Prizes **highlight [successes of local journalism](https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/pulitzer-prize-wins-highlight-successes-of-local-journalism,245300) - Prominent media figures form **new research group** [to influence internet policy in support of an independent press](https://www.axios.com/2023/08/22/media-policy-research-group-free-press) 📅 **Looking ahead** This week, [Cox Media Group launched Neighborhood TV](https://www.axios.com/2023/08/22/exclusive-cox-media-group-launches-hyper-local-streaming-service-neighborhood-tv), a free **streaming service that focuses on hyper-local news**, in dozens of neighborhoods in Atlanta and Charlotte. CMG plans to expand to Orlando later this year and eventually reach 5,000 neighborhoods nationwide. Nearly half of U.S. adults (47%) said in a [2018 Center survey](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2019/03/26/for-local-news-americans-embrace-digital-but-still-want-strong-community-connection/) that their **local news media mostly does not cover the area where they live**, but rather another area such as a nearby city. 📊 **Chart of the week** This week, as Twitter updates how it handles headlines, we [highlight a noticeable gap](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/27/twitter-is-the-go-to-social-media-site-for-u-s-journalists-but-not-for-the-public/) between the shares of U.S. journalists and the American public who use Twitter for news. ![A bar chart showing that Twitter is by far the most common social media site U.S. journalists use for their jobs, but the public most often turns to Facebook for news](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ft_2022.06.27_journalistssocialmedia_01.png){.aligncenter width=462} --- *👋 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 and Emily Tomasik. 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