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    "name": "Emily Tomasik"
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    "name": "Jacob Liedke"
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# Acknowledgments

*For our latest survey data about news influencers, [read the “News Influencers Fact Sheet.”](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/journalism/fact-sheet/news-influencers-fact-sheet/)*

This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Find related reports online at [https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pew-knight/](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pew-knight/).

#### Research

Galen Stocking, *Senior Computational Social Scientist*\
Luxuan Wang, *Research Associate*\
Michael Lipka, *Associate Director, News and Information Research*\
Katerina Eva Matsa, *Director, News and Information Research*\
Regina Widjaya, *Computational Social Scientist*\
Emily Tomasik, *Research Assistant*\
Jacob Liedke, *Research Analyst*\
Sam Bestvater, *Computational Social Scientist*\
Christopher St. Aubin, *Research Assistant*\
Elisa Shearer, *Senior Researcher*\
Kirsten Eddy, *Senior Researcher*\
Naomi Forman-Katz, *Research Analyst*\
Sarah Naseer, *Research Analyst*\
Sono Shah, *Associate Director, Data Labs*\
Athena Chapekis, *Data Science Analyst*\
William Halm, *Intern*\
Connor Jansen, *Intern*\
Yen Nguyen, *Intern*

#### Editorial and Graphic Design

David Kent, *Senior Copy Editor*\
Kaitlyn Radde, *Associate Information Graphics Designer*\
Peter Bell, *Associate Director, Design and Production*\
Andrea Caumont, *Associate Director, Digital Outreach*

#### Communications and Web Publishing

Sogand Afkari, *Communications Manager*\
Maya Pottiger, *Communications Associate*\
Justine Coleman, *Associate Digital Producer*

In addition, the project benefited greatly from the guidance of Meredith Conroy, political science professor at California State University, San Bernardino.

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