Elisa Shearer

In 2021, 11% of high-circulation newspapers experienced layoffs, compared with three times that share the year before (33%).

Nonprofit news reporters now account for 20% of the nation’s total statehouse press corps, up from 6% eight years ago.

The total number of journalists assigned to state capitol buildings is up 11% since 2014, though figures vary widely by state. And as newspapers employ fewer statehouse reporters, nonprofits are filling much of the void.

There are 245 newspaper reporters who cover the statehouse full time in 2022 in the United States, down from 374 in 2014.

Here is how the average adult Twitter user in the U.S. tweeted about the news in 2021, as well as how these patterns have changed since 2015.

Fully 70% of U.S. adult Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news events, up from 59% who said this in 2015.

Differences within each party on views of foreign policy emerge based on where Americans turn for political news.

We asked U.S. adults whether they consider each of 13 different news outlets to be a part of the mainstream media or not.

Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.

About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.