News Platforms & Sources

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.

While Fox’s audience spans ideologies on the right, its new challengers attract mainly conservatives.

The share of Americans who say they watch television via cable or satellite has plunged from 76% in 2015 to 56% this year.

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

In studying voters' views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.

As election returns rolled in – albeit more slowly than in recent years – Americans were tuning in closely. They also, for the most part, gave their news sources positive marks for the coverage of the returns, though Republicans were less likely to do so than Democrats.

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

Videos from independent news producers are more likely to cover subjects negatively and discuss conspiracy theories.

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.