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    Key facts about digital-native news outlets amid staff cuts, revenue losses
    Traffic to digital-native news sites has plateaued in recent years. After rising from 2014 to 2016, it remained steady through 2019.
    Three Months In, Many Americans See Exaggeration, Conspiracy Theories and Partisanship in COVID-19 News
    After three months of news and information, 64% of U.S. adults say the CDC mostly gets the facts about the outbreak right; 30% say the same about President Trump and his administration.
    Decade-long decline in newsroom employment hit midcareer workers the hardest
    Newsroom employment dropped by a quarter between 2008 and 2018, but the job cuts were not shouldered equally by journalists of all ages.
    Black and white Democrats differ in their media diets, assessments of primaries
    There are notable differences between white and black Democrats in news consumption habits and assessments of recent political events and figures in the news.
    Fast facts about the newspaper industry’s financial struggles as McClatchy files for bankruptcy
    U.S. newspaper circulation fell in 2018 to its lowest level since 1940, and newspaper revenues declined dramatically between 2008 and 2018.
    Views about Ukraine-impeachment story connect closely with where Americans get their news
    Many Democrats and Republicans hold divergent views of President Donald Trump's withholding of military aid to Ukraine. But in today’s fragmented news media environment, party identification may not be the only fault line.
    U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided
    As the U.S. enters a heated 2020 presidential election year, Republicans and Democrats place their trust in two nearly inverse news media environments.
    One-in-five U.S. newsroom employees live in New York, Los Angeles or D.C.
    About one-in-five newsroom employees (22%) live in these three metro areas, which, by comparison, are home to 13% of all U.S. workers.
    Key findings about the online news landscape in America
    The share of Americans who prefer to get their news online is growing. More Americans get news on social media than from print newspapers.
    About a quarter of large U.S. newspapers laid off staff in 2018
    Mid-market newspapers were the most likely to suffer layoffs in 2018. Digital-native news outlets also faced continued layoffs.
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