News Platforms & Sources

While Fox’s audience spans ideologies on the right, its new challengers attract mainly conservatives.

The share of Americans who say they watch television via cable or satellite has plunged from 76% in 2015 to 56% this year.

Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.

About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.

More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet “often” or “sometimes.”

In studying voters' views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.

As news outlets morph and multiply, both surveys and passive data collection tools face challenges.

As election returns rolled in – albeit more slowly than in recent years – Americans were tuning in closely. They also, for the most part, gave their news sources positive marks for the coverage of the returns, though Republicans were less likely to do so than Democrats.

Among the six publicly traded newspaper companies studied, second-quarter advertising revenue fell by a median of 42% year over year.

Though this figure is a sliver of all PPP loans lent out to small businesses as of August, it represents a large segment of U.S. newspaper companies.