The Political Gap in Americans’ News Sources – Pew Research Center

The Political Gap in Americans’ News Sources  Pew Research Center

Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to both use and trust many major news sources. Pew Research Center conducted this study to continue tracking news consumption and trust across a wide range of specific news sources. We last published similar reports in 2020 (based on a 2019 survey) and 2014. We regularly ask people about their news habits on various platforms (e.g., television, print, radio and digital) and their levels of trust in information from social media and national/local news organizations in general. But this study is designed to be more specific, looking at Americans’ familiarity with, usage of and views toward 30 individual news sources. To learn more about how we chose the 30 news sources, please visit the methodology.

Respondents first received a list of all 30 news sources and were asked to select all the sources that they had heard of. Next, for all the sources a respondent had heard of, they were asked which ones they generally trust as sources of news. Then, for all sources that they had heard of but did not say they trust, they were asked if they generally distrust those sources as sources of news. Finally, the survey asked respondents which sources they regularly get news from (again, only among the sources they already indicated they had heard of before).