{"id":16086,"date":"2013-05-14T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/one-reason-some-americans-give-up-on-news-media-less-information\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:31:36","slug":"one-reason-some-americans-give-up-on-news-media-less-information","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/05\/14\/one-reason-some-americans-give-up-on-news-media-less-information\/","title":{"rendered":"One Reason Some Americans Give up on News Media: Less Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faced with shrinking revenue and dwindling audiences, news organizations in recent years have slashed staffs and reduced coverage. Most news consumers are little aware of the financial struggles that led to these cuts. Nevertheless, a significant percentage of them not only have noticed a difference in the quantity or quality of news, but have stopped reading, watching or listening to the news because of it, according to the Pew Research Centers 2013 State of the News Media report.<\/p>\n\n

Nearly one-third\u201431%\u2014of people say they have deserted a particular news outlet because it no longer provides the news and information they had grown accustomed to, according to the survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults in early 2013. And those most likely to have walked away are better educated, wealthier and older than those who did not. In other words, they are people who tend to be most prone to consume and pay for news. (In the survey, the \u201cnews outlet\u201d was not confined to one segment of the media but could have been print, television, online or on other platforms).<\/p>\n\n

Despite the audience recoil, the majority of people surveyed early this year had heard little or nothing about the financial problems besetting news organizations. The largest group of respondents \u2014 36% \u2014 said they heard \u201cnothing at all\u201d about the issue and the second largest \u2014 24% \u2014 said they heard \u201ca little.\u201d That combined total of 60% far overshadows the 39% of people who said they heard \u201ca lot\u201d (17%) or \u201csome\u201d (22%) about the financial woes of the news industry.<\/p>\n\n

While a majority of people don\u2019t sense a connection between the news media\u2019s financial strains and quality reporting, a significant minority do detect a direct connection between the two. Nearly six-in-ten (57%) of respondents who had heard at least a little about the financial struggles said they didn\u2019t think the situation had much of an impact on the media\u2019s ability to cover local, national or international news. At the same time, about one-third \u2014 35% \u2014 said the problems have made it more difficult to cover local news, while a similar 37% said they have made it harder to cover national and international news. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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