Partisan divides in media trust widen, driven by a decline among Republicans
In just five years, the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut in half.
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In just five years, the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut in half.
Nonprofit news reporters now account for 20% of the nation’s total statehouse press corps, up from 6% eight years ago.
We thought it would be valuable to combine our study of news coverage itself with data on people’s views about, and exposure to, that coverage.
Americans turn to a wide range of media outlets for political and election news, but Fox News and CNN stand out as especially common sources.
Our director of journalism studies explains how we determined what media outlets Americans turn to and trust for their political news.
About a quarter of all U.S. adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016.
One-in-five U.S. adults often get news via social media, slightly higher than the 16% who often do so from print newspapers.
Blacks were more likely than whites to act upon online news in two particular ways: speaking with someone offline and saving news for later.
Nearly nine-in-ten voters who followed the 2016 returns (88%) did so on TV, while 48% used online platforms; 21% used social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
On a typical weekday, three-quarters of U.S. Latinos get their news from internet sources, nearly equal to the share who do so from television, according to a 2016 survey of Latino adults by Pew Research Center.
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