News Habits & Media

61% give equal attention to national and local coronavirus news.

Mergers, closures and layoffs have affected many media organizations. Here are 10 charts on the state of newsroom employment in the U.S. today.

More than two-thirds of adults ages 65 or older said they were following news of the pandemic very closely.

Newsroom employment across the United States continues to decline, driven primarily by job losses at newspapers.

A new analysis of open-ended responses to a survey of U.S. adults looks at the specific storylines or claims about COVID-19 that Americans said they were exposed to.

South Koreans are headed to the polls April 15 as the COVID-19 pandemic continues; 300 seats in the country’s legislative body are at stake.

Many U.S. news organizations are covering the coronavirus pandemic while themselves facing financial pressure from the outbreak.

While U.S. Democrats turn to a variety of outlets for political news, no source comes close to matching the appeal of Fox News for Republicans.

While 43% of Americans say the new coronavirus most likely came about naturally, nearly three-in-ten say it most likely was created in a lab.

Newsroom employment dropped by a quarter between 2008 and 2018, but the job cuts were not shouldered equally by journalists of all ages.