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decodedDec 9, 2020

Building our first video series, ‘Methods 101’

Our Methods 101 videos aim to make survey research accessible to a non-specialist audience. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look.
reportJul 30, 2020

1. Demographics of Americans who get most of their political news from social media

In a number of areas, the 18% of U.S. adults who say social media is their most common way to get political and election news stand out from adults who most often follow politics on other platforms (such as print, radio, television or news websites). Most notably, the social media group is the youngest by […]
reportJul 30, 2020

4. In addition to lower awareness of current events, social media news users hear more about some unproven claims

Even as Americans who primarily get their political news on social media are less likely to follow most news topics and be aware of specific events in the news, people in this group are as aware – or sometimes more aware – of several unproven claims and fringe theories related to the COVID-19 outbreak. One […]
reportJul 30, 2020

Americans Who Mainly Get Their News on Social Media Are Less Engaged, Less Knowledgeable

U.S. adults in this group are less likely to get the facts right about COVID-19 and politics and more likely to hear some unproven claims.
reportJul 30, 2020

3. U.S. adults who mostly rely on social media for political news are often less knowledgeable about current events

U.S. adults whose most common way of getting political and election news is social media lag behind Americans who turn to most other sources of news in their knowledge and understanding of the COVID-19 outbreak, politics and other current events. Between October 2019 and June 2020, the American News Pathways project asked 29 fact-based knowledge […]
short readsDec 8, 2020

Many Americans are unsure whether sources of news do their own reporting

Roughly half of Americans or more were able to correctly identify whether three of the six sources asked about do their own reporting.
short readsApr 28, 2021

Q&A: How Pew Research Center studied press coverage of the Biden administration’s early days

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.
reportMay 8, 2023

2. Asian Americans and life in America

Life for Asians living in the United States is shaped by the relationships they form here, their cultural heritage, and their group’s history in the U.S. Their lives in America are also shaped by the connections they have with other Asian Americans and their views of representation and politics. For many Asian adults, where they […]
reportAug 31, 2020

5. Black Americans see representation as key in determining how they stay informed

People in different subgroups within the U.S. population often have different views of, relationships with and priorities for the news media. Partisanship is among the strongest divides, with Republicans expressing much more negativity toward the media than Democrats (see Chapter 4). But striking divisions also emerge between other groups in the country, including racial and […]
reportOct 6, 2020

Amid National Reckoning, Americans Divided on Whether Increased Focus on Race Will Lead to Major Policy Change

More Black adults now say the country has work to do to address racial inequality; attitudes of White adults have changed little since 2019.

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Building our first video series, ‘Methods 101’

Many Americans are unsure whether sources of news do their own reporting

Q&A: How Pew Research Center studied press coverage of the Biden administration’s early days

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