{"id":224461,"date":"2025-04-24T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=newsletterglue&#038;p=224461"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:59:43","slug":"the-briefing-2025-04-24","status":"publish","type":"newsletterglue","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/newsletter\/the-briefing\/the-briefing-2025-04-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans remain concerned about press freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-59025df86526dbfc 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-55d75fc45a5a514c 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-67fcb67ae349b899 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> 60 Minutes producer resigns, citing loss of journalistic independence<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>New from Pew Research Center<\/strong>: Americans remain concerned about press freedoms, but partisan views have flipped since 2024<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>In other news:<\/strong> National Science Foundation cancels grants related to misinformation<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Looking ahead:<\/strong> The Washington Post, OpenAI sign content sharing deal<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Chart of the week:<\/strong> Most Americans say the U.S. news media is <em>not <\/em>completely free to report the news<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-68653f9692c64a08 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-376d32061c4dcfa0 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-605af825b115ccc4 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>Bill Owens, the executive producer of <strong>60 Minutes, <\/strong>announced this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/business\/media\/cbs-60-minutes-trump-bill-owens.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he would step down from the CBS news program<\/a>, citing a loss of journalistic independence and telling staff that he is no longer allowed to run the show as he always has. This comes after <strong>President Donald Trump<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/02\/06\/nx-s1-5288181\/why-cbs-stands-at-the-epicenter-of-trumps-assault-on-the-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued CBS<\/a> last fall, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kamala-harris-trump-cbs-interview-edit-024c435a19fd37eee7a090ece76d925c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claiming 60 Minutes deceptively edited an interview<\/a> with former Vice President Kamala Harris, then the Democratic candidate for president. Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/07\/business\/media\/trump-paramount-mediator-60-minutes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entered mediation with Trump<\/a> in that suit.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-2bde91597a2542c8 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>Large majorities of Americans believe <strong>U.S. news organizations are at least somewhat influenced by government and political interests<\/strong> (86%) or by <strong>corporations and financial interests<\/strong> (85%), according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/04\/24\/americans-remain-concerned-about-press-freedoms-but-partisan-views-have-flipped-since-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new Pew Research Center analysis<\/a>. The share of U.S. adults who say news organizations are influenced <em>a great deal<\/em> by government and political interests has risen from 49% last year to 57% today. Americans also have become slightly more likely to say corporations and financial interests are influencing news outlets a great deal (51% then vs. 55% now).&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-b12146623745ad54 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-c80968677144f606 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-6a0d37769156d63d 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>Most Americans continue to be <strong>concerned about potential restrictions on press freedoms in the U.S.,<\/strong> according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/04\/24\/americans-remain-concerned-about-press-freedoms-but-partisan-views-have-flipped-since-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center survey<\/a> conducted Feb. 24-March 2. But there have been major shifts in partisan views since Trump retook office in January.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-347f2ad70c7135b5 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 2024, during the Biden administration, 47% of Republicans and independents who lean Republican said they were extremely or very concerned about restrictions on press freedoms. Fewer Democrats and Democratic leaners (38%) said the same.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-302ce6a0cd8fc438 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>Under the new Trump administration, a majority of Democrats (60%) are highly concerned about press freedoms \u2013 about double the share of Republicans (28%).<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-2d68738c044492df 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>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/04\/24\/americans-remain-concerned-about-press-freedoms-but-partisan-views-have-flipped-since-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Americans\u2019 views on the state of press freedom in the U.S.<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-2ec34874dcaa0fb8 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-5572f86b577a24cb 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-34a46e90d785e9af 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\">The <strong>National Science Foundation <\/strong>has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2025\/04\/national-science-foundation-cancels-research-grants-related-to-misinformation-and-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">canceled research grants<\/a> related to misinformation and disinformation,<strong> <\/strong>citing a <strong>Trump executive order<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Sarah Palin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/jury-finds-ny-times-not-liable-sarah-palin-defamation-case-2025-04-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">loses defamation retrial<\/a> against <strong>The New York Times<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\">Influencers on <strong>X <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/04\/23\/business\/elon-musk-x-suppression-laura-loomer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B08.-KRh.oD5OYidUGf7G&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saw their reach decline<\/a> after feuding with <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\">A <strong>federal judge<\/strong> rules that <strong>Voice of America <\/strong>staffers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2025\/04\/22\/voice-of-america-voa-ruling-employees-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">can return to work<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Sewell Chan,<\/strong> the executive editor of <strong>Columbia Journalism Review, <\/strong>is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/18\/business\/media\/cjr-sewell-chan-fired.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fired after less than a year in the role<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\">A look at an<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2025\/04\/this-news-outlet-is-leading-the-fight-against-trumps-foreign-aid-funding-freeze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">international anti-corruption nonprofit news outlet<\/a> in the wake of <strong>Trump\u2019s foreign aid freeze<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-19a76d4b5407bdad wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"20\" style=\"height: 20px !important\" data-height=\"20px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-f1864909a7327146 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-eb084e816fba213c 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>The Washington Post<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/04\/22\/chatgpt-adds-washington-post-openai-media-bezos-altman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reached an agreement<\/a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<strong>OpenAI<\/strong>&nbsp;to allow ChatGPT to summarize, quote and link to articles from the Post in the chatbot\u2019s responses. This deal is the most recent high-profile example of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/2024-in-review-a-timeline-of-the-major-deals-between-publishers-and-ai-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">media outlets partnering with AI companies<\/a>&nbsp;to allow their content to be used in AI products.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-b5db940077b80cbb 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/2025\/04\/03\/public-and-expert-predictions-for-ais-next-20-years\/#how-will-ai-impact-the-u-s-over-the-next-20-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent Pew Research Center study<\/a>\u00a0found that both Americans and AI experts are generally\u00a0<strong>pessimistic about the impact AI will have on the news people get<\/strong>\u00a0in the next 20 years. About half or more of both experts (56%) and U.S. adults (51%) say AI it will negatively affect the news people get in the next two decades, compared with much smaller shares who say it will have a positive impact in this area (18% and 10%, respectively).<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-228831f8e0fe22f0 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-2472a935d9b5e69d 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-832c08bf022836a3 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 majority of Americans <strong>say the U.S. news media is <em>not <\/em>completely free to report the news,<\/strong> according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/04\/24\/americans-remain-concerned-about-press-freedoms-but-partisan-views-have-flipped-since-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new Center survey<\/a> conducted Feb. 24-March 2. Overall, a third of Americans say the media is completely free to report the news. The largest share (46%) say the media is somewhat free in this regard, while 21% say the media is not very or not at all free.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-b1f9f2e7db82fc62 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>While these overall numbers are virtually unchanged since 2024, partisan views on this question have shifted in the past year. In 2024, Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say the media is completely free to report the news (38% vs. 29%). 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