News Habits & Media

Many Indians are satisfied with how democracy is working in India. But most see politicians as corrupt and question the efficacy of elections.

A majority of Americans believe the news media do not understand people like them, and this feeling is especially common among Republicans.

Pew Research Center takes the pulse of Americans and people around the world on many issues every year. Read 18 of this year’s standout findings.

One-in-five U.S. adults often get news via social media, slightly higher than the 16% who often do so from print newspapers.

Americans continue to prefer watching the news rather than reading or listening to it, and their viewing loyalties have yet to migrate fully to the web.

An analysis of Youtube videos suggested by the site's recommendation engine finds that users are directed toward progressively longer and more popular content

Some 44% of liberal Democrats say they have used social media in the past year to encourage others to take action on an issue that was important to them. A similar share (43%) have taken part in a group that shares their interest in a cause.

Newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than U.S. workers overall. There are signs, though, of a turning tide: Younger newsroom employees show greater racial, ethnic and gender diversity than their older colleagues, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.

Younger adults in eight Western European countries are about twice as likely as older adults to get news online than from TV. They also are more critical of the media's performance and coverage of key issues.

Younger U.S. adults were better than their elders at differentiating between factual and opinion statements in a survey conducted in early 2018.