Podcasts and News Fact Sheet
Podcasts are playing a bigger role in Americans’ news diets. Around a third of U.S. adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Podcasts are playing a bigger role in Americans’ news diets. Around a third of U.S. adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes.
Americans get local crime news from a variety of sources, turning most often to people they know and local news outlets.
Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to support ending federal funding for public media.
In general, Republicans and Republican leaners are much less likely than Democrats to trust the information they get from national news organizations.
The median age of regular news consumers ranges from 39 for Univision to 63 for Newsmax.
Americans who feel more attached to their community are also more likely to be interested in news about local laws and elections.
While two-thirds of U.S. Latinos say they can read a newspaper or book in Spanish at least pretty well, just 21% say they mostly consume news in Spanish. Just over half of Hispanics (54%) report getting news mostly in English, while 23% say they consume news in both languages about equally. Only 1% say they […]
Most U.S. adults follow news about local government and politics, yet only a quarter are highly satisfied with the quality of coverage.
About one-in-five Hispanic adults (22%) say they follow the news all or most of the time, down from 28% in 2022. The share of U.S. adults overall who say they closely follow the news also has been declining. Although we did not ask this question of the overall U.S. population in 2023, Latinos were less […]
The network holds a unique place in the U.S. media landscape, particularly for those on the ideological right.
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