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News Media Tracker: How Americans Use and Trust News Sources

Explore data on 30 major news sources with our interactive tool

Americans now navigate a quickly changing information environment, with a wide variety of news sources across many different platforms and channels. We asked Americans about 30 specific news sources – whether they are aware of each one, whether they regularly get news there and whether they trust or distrust it.

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Read more in the accompanying report [LINK TO REPORT]. Refer to the methodology [LINK TO METHODOLOGY] and frequently asked questions [LINK TO FAQ] for more details, including how we chose these 30 sources.

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Who gets news from these sources?
Who trusts these news sources?
All U.S. adults
Republican
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Ages 18-29
30-49
50-64
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Interested in an individual news source? Dive deeper by clicking on one below.

  • ABC News
  • The Associated Press
  • Axios
  • The Atlantic
  • BBC News
  • Breitbart
  • CBS News
  • CNN
  • The Daily Wire
  • Forbes
  • Fox News
  • The Guardian
  • The Hill
  • HuffPost
  • The Joe Rogan Experience
  • MSNBC
  • NBC News
  • New York Post
  • Newsmax
  • Newsweek
  • NPR
  • PBS
  • Politico
  • Telemundo
  • The New York Times
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The Washington Post
  • Tucker Carlson Network
  • Univision
  • USA Today