{"id":200299,"date":"2025-02-20T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=newsletterglue&#038;p=200299"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:31:58","slug":"the-briefing-2025-02-20","status":"publish","type":"newsletterglue","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/newsletter\/the-briefing\/the-briefing-2025-02-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats consider digital media strategy post-election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-70ae0a1b79aaa098 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p><strong>\u2600\ufe0f Happy Thursday!<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information<\/em>.<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/sign-up-for-the-briefing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/sign-up-for-the-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sign up here!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-da0a1a54de66f9e2 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p><strong>In today<em>\u2019<\/em>s email:<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-97ad2b1711293a96 wp-block-newsletterglue-list ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:15px;padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:40px;padding-right:20px;color:#2a2a2a\"><ul class=\"wp-block-newsletterglue-list\"><li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Featured story:<\/strong> Democrats and left-leaning influencers consider media strategy after election<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>New from Pew Research Center:<\/strong> Who Americans think of as news influencers on social media<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>In other news:<\/strong> Mississippi judge orders newspaper to remove editorial criticizing public officials<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Looking ahead:<\/strong> Knight Foundation to invest $25 million in local nonprofit news initiative American Journalism Project<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Chart of the week:<\/strong> The specific people who come to mind when Americans think of news influencers&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-eaae588f03de588a wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"25\" style=\"height: 25px !important\" data-height=\"25px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-ed687a68c06511fa wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udd25&nbsp;<strong>Featured story<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-568b5895bbbda55f wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>In the wake of President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 election victory, Democrats and left-leaning influencers are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/02\/16\/2025\/democrats-influencers-huddle-for-a-new-new-media-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grappling with the changing digital media ecosystem<\/a>&nbsp;and its role in the election outcome.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-255e259f62eb41fb wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2024\/11\/18\/americas-news-influencers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent Pew Research Center study of news influencers<\/a>&nbsp;on social media found that&nbsp;<strong>slightly more news influencers explicitly identify with the political right than the left.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-6940321ae74c65f8 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>We also analyzed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/02\/06\/how-news-influencers-talked-about-trump-and-harris-during-the-2024-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news influencers\u2019 posts leading up to the election<\/a>, finding that about&nbsp;<strong>twice as many posts by all the news influencers in our sample mentioned Trump (12%) as mentioned Democratic candidate Kamala Harris (6%)<\/strong>&nbsp;during the study period. A slightly higher percentage of posts that mentioned Trump were supportive of him (27%) compared with the share of posts about Harris that were supportive of her (19%).&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-a13d911056102c68 wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"25\" style=\"height: 25px !important\" data-height=\"25px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-5f969edc3a44b48e wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>New from Pew Research Center<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-3e6522719a59cc88 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/02\/19\/no-consensus-on-who-comes-to-mind-when-americans-are-asked-to-name-a-news-influencer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new Center analysis<\/a>, we asked the 21% of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media to name <strong>the first news influencer who comes to mind.<\/strong> Respondents gave a wide variety of answers.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-522934b5134197a9 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>Half named individual people, ranging from journalists to opinion commentators to politicians to content creators. A small share mentioned media outlets. And 42% gave no response or said they couldn\u2019t think of a news influencer. This suggests that even for many Americans who say they regularly get news from news influencers, it is difficult to quickly think of a specific one.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-d282bff31cd1585b wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>This analysis is from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/pew-knight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pew-Knight Initiative<\/a>, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-d8697253c4c1aa80 wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"25\" style=\"height: 25px !important\" data-height=\"25px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-bd8a4110f5d04173 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udccc&nbsp;<strong>In other news<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-f7863921e06c64c5 wp-block-newsletterglue-list ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:15px;padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:40px;padding-right:20px;color:#2a2a2a\"><ul class=\"wp-block-newsletterglue-list\"><li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Mississippi judge<\/strong> orders newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/02\/19\/city-officials-sue-clarksdale-ms-newspaper-over-editorial\/79226725007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to remove editorial<\/a> criticizing public officials&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Trump Media <\/strong>and <strong>Rumble <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/19\/donald-trump-truth-social-brazil-lawsuit-020672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sue Brazilian judge<\/a>, alleging censorship&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>U.S. State Department<\/strong> orders embassies and consulates to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2025\/02\/18\/state-department-news-subscriptions-trump-media-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cancel news subscriptions<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\">A profile of <strong>Hasan Piker,<\/strong> the <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2025\/02\/hasan-piker-donald-trump-news-elon-musk-jd-vance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online news pundit<\/a> attracting young, left-leaning men &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>The New York Times<\/strong> greenlights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/02\/16\/2025\/new-york-times-goes-all-in-on-internal-ai-tools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI tools for internal use<\/a> &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Italy\u2019s national journalist union<\/strong> submits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/19\/journalists-launch-legal-action-against-italian-government-over-spyware-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legal action against government<\/a> over spyware concerns &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\">Pentagon spokesperson invites <strong>conservative radio hosts<\/strong> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/02\/18\/conservative-radio-hosts-invited-broadcast-pentagon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">broadcast from the Pentagon<\/a> &nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-7d0188e3f2e41d90 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udcc5&nbsp;<strong>Looking ahead<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-1a98fa4bfbbef1ff wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>Earlier this week, the American Journalism Project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/02\/18\/local-news-knight-foundation-ajp-investment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will invest <strong>$25 million<\/strong> in the venture philanthropy initiative to <strong>\u201caccelerate the growth of nonprofit local news organizations nationwide.\u201d<\/strong> (The Knight Foundation is also a partner to Pew Research Center through the Pew-Knight Initiative.)&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-5e36d9a06ac84051 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>These efforts follow <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/fact-sheet\/newspapers\/#economics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decades of steep decline<\/a> in newspaper revenues nationwide. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2024\/05\/07\/americans-views-on-the-financial-health-of-local-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 Pew Research Center survey<\/a>, <strong>most U.S. adults (63%) think their local news outlets are doing very or somewhat well financially,<\/strong> although this share is down somewhat since 2018 (from 71%). While 85% of Americans say local news is at least somewhat important to the well-being of their local community, just 15% say they have paid for local news in the past year (whether through subscriptions, donations or memberships).&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-6030879a3e640529 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2022\/04\/29\/nonprofit-news-outlets-are-playing-a-growing-role-in-statehouse-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 Center analysis<\/a>, <strong>nonprofit news organizations are playing an increasing role in covering state capitols.<\/strong> The number of nonprofit news reporters who cover state capitols nearly quadrupled between 2014 to 2022, and these journalists accounted for 20% of the nation\u2019s total statehouse press corps in 2022, up from 6% eight years before.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-c74731b2c8dd9803 wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"25\" style=\"height: 25px !important\" data-height=\"25px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-191973d578a98376 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udcca&nbsp;<strong>Chart of the week<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-a9a5e2e93170308f wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>This week\u2019s chart is a look into&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/02\/19\/no-consensus-on-who-comes-to-mind-when-americans-are-asked-to-name-a-news-influencer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our new analysis<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<strong>who Americans think of as news influencers on social media.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-e076f1bb03f092d0 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>In an open-ended question, we asked U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from news influencers to name the first one who comes to mind for them. The most frequently mentioned news influencers included&nbsp;<strong>Philip DeFranco<\/strong>&nbsp;(volunteered by 3%),&nbsp;<strong>Tucker Carlson<\/strong>&nbsp;(2%),&nbsp;<strong>Ben Shapiro<\/strong>&nbsp;(2%),&nbsp;<strong>V Spehar from Under the Desk News<\/strong>&nbsp;(2%),&nbsp;<strong>Carlos Eduardo Espina<\/strong>&nbsp;(2%) and&nbsp;<strong>President Donald Trump<\/strong>&nbsp;(2%).&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-3f7c22171e94c4bd wp-block-newsletterglue-image ng-block aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"center\" style=\"padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?attachment_id=200304\"><img data-dominant-color=\"eae8e8\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.19_news-influencer-open-end_1_9de0a8.png\" alt=\"This is a bar chart with the left side showing the share of Americans who regularly get news from news influencers on social media who volunteered different types of creators when asked to identify the first news influencer who comes to mind. Responses were coded into several categories, including individuals, media outlets, social media sites, search engine or news aggregator, and Don\u2019t know\/no response. 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