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About one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots.
One-in-five U.S. adults say they find AI summaries in search results extremely or very useful, 52% say they’re somewhat useful, and 28% say they’re not too or not at all useful.
Among adults under 30, 43% say they regularly get news from TikTok, up from 9% in 2020.
Podcasts are playing a bigger role in Americans’ news diets. Around a third of U.S. adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes.
Many Americans use social media for news: About a fifth or more regularly get news on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
How Americans get news continues to evolve as platforms emerge, like AI chatbots and email newsletters. Find out how often they get news from digital devices.
The median age of regular news consumers ranges from 39 for Univision to 63 for Newsmax.
The share of regular news consumers with college degrees ranges from 62% for The Atlantic to 15% and 16%, respectively, for Univision and Telemundo.
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
