Social Media & the News

Americans are more likely to get news on Twitter and Facebook than ever before. Our new study explores the similarities and differences in the role of news on these two social networks.

More Americans get news on Twitter and Facebook today than in the past. We pulled together key facts about news consumption on these two popular social media sites.

Compared with the previous two generations, Millennials are less familiar with many news sources we asked about. Here are 5 facts about Millennials' news habits.

Millennials rely on Facebook for their political news, while Baby Boomers turn to local TV. And while Millennials are less engaged with political news, they trust news sources as much as older generations do.

We asked residents in Denver, Macon, Ga., and Sioux City, Iowa, about the actions they take to gather, share and add to the news in their communities.

We wanted to analyze the role Facebook played as a means for people to hear about, discuss and share local news. But getting the data we needed wasn't easy.

Here's a rundown of what worked and what didn't in using Twitter for our research of three local news ecosystems.

And more think keeping up with local news has gotten easier than harder, according to our analysis of the media landscape in three U.S. cities.

Pew Research Center's new report examines the local news environment in three U.S. metropolitan areas of different population size and demographic makeup.

Only 32% of Turks said that the media is having a good influence on the way things are going in Turkey.