Americans have mixed views about how the news media cover Biden’s, Trump’s ages
Similar shares of U.S. adults believe news organizations are giving too much attention (32%) or too little attention (29%) to Biden’s age.
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Similar shares of U.S. adults believe news organizations are giving too much attention (32%) or too little attention (29%) to Biden’s age.
U.S.-born Latinos mostly get their news in English and prefer it in English, while immigrant Latinos have much more varied habits.
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that podcast listening is highly fragmented, and no one podcast dominates.
More than half of Americans (58%) say they are following news about candidates for the 2024 presidential election very or fairly closely.
Four-in-ten Americans who get news from social media say inaccuracy is the thing they dislike most about it – an increase of 9 percentage points since 2018.
True crime stands out as the most common topic of top-ranked podcasts in the United States.
The social media sites that journalists use most frequently for their jobs differ from those that the public turns to for news.
Half of 18- to 29-year-olds say they have at least some trust in the information they get from social media sites.
41% of U.S. journalists who are employed at least part time at a news outlet say they would join a union if it were available to them.
True crime is the most common topic, making up 24% of top-ranked podcasts; 15% of the top podcasts focus on news. The next most common topics are politics and government (10%); entertainment, pop culture and the arts (9%); and self-help and relationships (8%).
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