Sawyer Reed

Sawyer Reed is a research assistant at Pew Research Center.

Sawyer helps with the Center’s research on how Americans get news and navigate an ever-evolving information ecosystem, providing support throughout the research process with survey development, data analysis and fact-checking. He also contributes to the Center’s weekly media-focused newsletter, The Briefing.

Sawyer is especially interested in understanding how current events, technological advancements and political perspectives inform how people understand the world around them. Before serving in his current role, he was a coding intern working on projects that studied online and traditional media discussions of politics, family and religious life.

He has a bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology from George Washington University.