News Habits & Media

Here’s a look at how adults in the United States see cancel culture, political correctness and related issues, based on the Center’s surveys.

We’ve updated our series of fact sheets on the U.S. news media industry. Here are some key findings about the state of the industry in 2020.

In the U.S., roughly nine-in-ten adults (93%) get at least some news online (either via mobile or desktop), and the online space has become a host for the digital homes of both legacy news outlets and new, “born on the web” news outlets.

The State of the News Media fact sheets use a range of different methodologies to study the health of the U.S. news industry, including custom analysis of news audience behavior, secondary analysis of industry data and direct reporting to solicit information unavailable elsewhere.

While newspapers have seen steep job losses from 2008 to 2020, digital-native news organizations have seen considerable gains.

Americans’ trust in media varies widely by political party and whether they see the outlet in question as part of the “mainstream media.”

Newspapers are a critical part of the American news landscape, but they have been hard hit as more and more Americans consume news digitally.

A new study of posts on popular public Facebook pages about the early days of the Biden administration finds that the focus of these posts, as well as the assessments of the new president, differed widely by the ideological orientation of the pages.

U.S. adults’ views of what makes a news story trustworthy vary by party affiliation, demographic characteristics and news consumption habits.

11% of stories about Joe Biden’s early days as president cited an anonymous or unnamed source, and fewer than 1% relied solely on such sources.