reportOct 29, 2020 Coronavirus-Driven Downturn Hits Newspapers Hard as TV News Thrives Among the six publicly traded newspaper companies studied, second-quarter advertising revenue fell by a median of 42% year over year.
short readOct 29, 2020 Nearly 2,800 newspaper companies received paycheck protection loans, and most were under $150K 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.
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.
short readJul 24, 2020 A look at the Americans who believe there is some truth to the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was planned Most Americans (71%) have heard of a conspiracy theory that alleges that powerful people intentionally planned the coronavirus outbreak.
short readJul 9, 2020 Younger adults differ from older ones in perceptions of news about COVID-19, George Floyd protests Those ages 18 to 29 differ from older Americans in their news consumption habits and in their responses to major news events and coverage.
short readJul 2, 2020 Local news is playing an important role for Americans during COVID-19 outbreak Some 61% of U.S. adults say they follow COVID-19 news at both the national and local level equally, and 23% say they pay more attention to local news.
reportJun 24, 2020 As COVID-19 Emerged in U.S., Facebook Posts About It Appeared in a Wide Range of Public Pages, Groups In March 2020, about three-quarters (74%) of public Facebook posts about COVID-19 linked to news organizations, while just 1% linked to health and science sites.
short readMay 28, 2020 Around three-in-ten Americans are very confident they could fact-check news about COVID-19 Americansโ confidence in checking COVID-19 information aligns closely with their confidence in checking the accuracy of news stories broadly.
short readMay 22, 2020 Americans are following news about presidential candidates much less closely than COVID-19 news With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.
reportMay 20, 2020 Americans Who Rely Most on White House for COVID-19 News More Likely to Downplay the Pandemic People in this group are most likely to say the outbreak has been made too big of a deal and journalists have been exaggerating the risks.