A growing share of Americans prefer to get local news online, while fewer are getting news on TV or in print. Most U.S. adults (85%) believe that local news outlets are at least somewhat important to their local community’s well-being.
U.S.-born Latinos mostly get their news in English and prefer it in English, while immigrant Latinos have much more varied habits.
Four-in-ten Americans who get news from social media say inaccuracy is the thing they dislike most about it – an increase of 9 percentage points since 2018.
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About a quarter of all U.S. adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016.
News stories about the beginning of Trump administration’s presidency that included one of his tweets were more likely to have an overall negative assessment.
Read 10 key findings from recent Pew Research Center reports about today’s digital news media landscape.
Overall, 36% of Americans get science news at least a few times a week and three-in-ten actively seek it. Most get science news from general news outlets, but more see specialty sources as being accurate.
People deal in varying ways with tensions about what information to trust and how much they want to learn. Some are interested and engaged with information; others are wary and stressed.
Today, 67% of U.S. adults get at least some news on social media. Twitter, YouTube and Snapchat serve as sources of news for more of their users, though Facebook still leads as a source of news for Americans.
Many Americans turned to Google to learn about the Flint water crisis. An analysis of aggregated searches over time illustrates how, in today’s digital environment, public interest shifts as a story unfolds.
Blacks were more likely than whites to act upon online news in two particular ways: speaking with someone offline and saving news for later.
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