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    Levels of trust and how Americans feel about the fairness and accuracy of the press

    Trust in the media overall has declined in the last year, but people’s trust in their favorite news outlet has grown. If we look at [...]

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    How Americans describe their news consumption behaviors

    Most Americans describe themselves as active news consumers. Sixty‑three percent report that they seek out news and information. Far fewer, 37 percent, say they mostly [...]

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    Are newspaper subscribers more knowledgeable or approving of the news media?

    Newspaper subscribers hold more positive views of many specific types of media — and have an easier time deciphering news from opinion — than do [...]

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    How much Republicans and Democrats trust or understand the news media

    It should come as no surprise today that the partisan divide over news is a troubling and significant issue as the United States comes to [...]

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    What the public expects from the press (and what journalists think)

    The public and journalists expect the same things from the news media. The public just doesn’t think it’s getting it. What do people want from [...]

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    Methodology for ‘Americans and the News Media’

    This study was conducted by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the American Press Institute (API) and The Associated Press‑NORC Center for Public Affairs [...]

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    How younger and older Americans understand and interact with news

    While the survey finds distinctions among attitudes and understanding of the media by factors like party and ideology, it also finds some significant and cautionary [...]

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    Welcome API’s summer fellow Gonzalo del Peon: Expanding reader revenue beyond subscriptions and helping newsrooms study what audiences need

    The last twelve months have been the year of the digital subscription. In response to continuing ad revenue losses and social media platform upheaval, more [...]

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    Getting started: Some templates and tools for encouraging organic news fluency

    Every story is an opportunity to have a conversation with your audience about what journalism is for and how journalists conduct their work. Each type [...]

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    Journalists can change the way they build stories to create organic news fluency

    When journalists talk about how they wish the public could recognize good reporting from bad reporting or even fakery, the subject often turns to whether [...]

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