---
title: "International News Tops Domestic in Public Interest"
description: "Report Summary Events overseas are overshadowing the importance of domestic news to the public. Americans are ten times more likely to cite an international news story (40%) than a domestic one (4%) as the most important event of the month. This is the fifth month in a row that Americans have named overseas stories more […]"
date: "1990-04-12"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/1990/04/12/international-news-tops-domestic-in-public-interest/"
categories:
  - "News Coverage"
---

# International News Tops Domestic in Public Interest

## Report Summary

Events overseas are overshadowing the importance of domestic news to the public. Americans are ten times more likely to cite an international news story (40%) than a domestic one (4%) as the most important event of the month. This is the fifth month in a row that Americans have named overseas stories more often than U.S. based ones as the most important news of the period.