True crime podcasts are popular in the U.S., particularly among women and those with less formal education
True crime stands out as the most common topic of top-ranked podcasts in the United States.
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True crime stands out as the most common topic of top-ranked podcasts in the United States.
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that podcast listening is highly fragmented, and no one podcast dominates.
At least half of Black podcast listeners regularly listen to podcasts about entertainment and pop culture; self-help and relationships; comedy; and money and finance.
We asked researchers how they used the newest generation of large language models to analyze roughly 24,000 podcast episodes.
About eight-in-ten Americans ages 12 and older listen to terrestrial radio in a given week.
The Pew-Knight Initiative will deliver a comprehensive, real-time look at the information landscape from the standpoints of both consumers and producers of news.
A declining share of U.S. adults are following the news closely, and audiences are shrinking for several older types of news media.
The share of Americans who say they often get news from a podcast is quite small, at just 7%; 16% of adults say they sometimes do.
57% of U.S. journalists surveyed say they are extremely or very concerned about potential restrictions on press freedoms in the country.
We’ve updated our series of fact sheets on the U.S. news media industry. Here are some key findings about the state of the industry in 2020.
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