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featureJun 9, 2025

Americans now navigate a quickly changing information environment, with a wide variety of news sources across many different platforms and channels. Explore data on how Americans use, trust and distrust 30 major news sources with our interactive tool.

Accompanying report: The Political Gap in Americans’ News Sources

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reportOct 5, 2004

Debate Coverage Viewed Favorably

Summary of Findings Amid an increasingly divisive presidential campaign, voters largely agree in their positive assessments of news coverage of the first presidential debate. Solid majorities of certain Bush voters (55%), certain Kerry supporters (62%), and swing voters (60%) rate the coverage of the debate as good or excellent. Voters also generally think that the […]
reportSep 30, 2004

Young People More Engaged, More Uncertain

Debates More Important to Young Voters
reportSep 12, 2004

The End of “Network News”

What happened this summer, and particularly last week, is likely to be recalled as the end of the era of network news. At the very least, mark this as the moment when the networks abdicated their authority with the American public.
reportJul 12, 2004

Character and the Campaign

If presidential campaigns are about character and control of message, neither candidate has had much success so far, a new PEJ study finds.
reportJul 11, 2004

More News Is Not Necessarily Good News

by Andrew Kohut in the New York Times
reportJul 8, 2004

Internet as Unique News Source

Millions go online for news and images not covered in the mainstream press. But many are repulsed by what they see.
reportJun 8, 2004

News Audiences Increasingly Politicized

Overview Despite tumultuous events abroad, the public’s news habits have been relatively stable over the past two years. Yet modest growth has continued in two important areas online news and cable news. Regarding the latter, the expanding audience for the Fox News Channel stands out. Since 2000, the number of Americans who regularly watch Fox […]
reportMay 23, 2004

Bottom-Line Pressures Now Hurting Coverage, Say Journalists

Journalists are unhappy with the way things are going in their profession these days. This report is part of Pew Research Center’s 2004 State of the News Media publication.
reportMay 23, 2004

Bottom-Line Pressures Now Hurting Coverage, Say Journalists

Overview This report is part of State of the News Media 2004, a annual publication of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Journalists are unhappy with the way things are going in their profession these days. Many give poor grades to the coverage offered by the types of media that serve most Americans: daily newspapers, […]
reportApr 19, 2004

Changing Channels and Crisscrossing Cultures: A Survey of Latinos on the News Media

Getting the news could be the single most extensive cross-cultural experience for the Hispanic population in America.

Signature Reports

reportNov 18, 2024

Pew Research Center illustration for America's News Influencers report; photos via Getty Images

This study explores the makeup of the social media news influencer universe, including who they are, what content they create and who their audiences are.

reportJun 12, 2024

A Facebook livestream of a naturalization ceremony held at New York City's Public Library for the Performing Arts in on April 28, 2021.

X is still more of a news destination than these other platforms, but the vast majority of users on all four see news-related content.

reportMay 7, 2024

Reporters question a defense attorney at Harris County Criminal Courts at Law in Houston on March 26, 2024. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

More Americans now prefer to get local news online, while fewer turn to TV or print. And most say local news outlets are important to their community.

reportMar 19, 2024