News Habits & Media

Among the six publicly traded newspaper companies studied, second-quarter advertising revenue fell by a median of 42% year over year.

Though this figure is a sliver of all PPP loans lent out to small businesses as of August, it represents a large segment of U.S. newspaper companies.

About eight-in-ten Americans (79%) say news organizations tend to favor one side when presenting the news on political and social issues.

We have studied Americans’ attitudes toward tech companies for years. Here are takeaways from our recent research.

Biden supporters are more likely than Trump supporters to be confident their news sources will make the right call in announcing a winner. And partisans remain worlds apart on how well the U.S. has controlled the coronavirus outbreak.

Just one-in-ten Americans say social media sites have a mostly positive effect on the way things are going in the U.S. today.

The share of social media users who say they have changed their views on an issue has increased since we last asked this question in 2018.

Entering the peak of the the 2020 election season, social media platforms are firmly entrenched as a venue for Americans to process campaign news and engage in various types of social activism. But not all Americans use these platforms in similar ways.

Just half of registered voters expect to know results within a day or two of Election Day, including nearly identical shares who support Trump and Biden.

Among Republicans, opinions about the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. differ considerably by source of news.