Digital formats provide distinctly different opportunities for people to engage with news and information than do traditional print and broadcast media formats. In doing so, [...]
Research from others has noted that Americans’ trust in the press has been declining, with occasional interruptions, for roughly two decades. This study finds that [...]
For printing and offline viewing, a PDF version of this study report and the topline survey results are available for download.
This study employs a new approach for understanding trust. Rather than asking people about what makes news trustworthy in the abstract, we ground respondents by [...]
What it means to trust the news and the reasons people cite for relying on specific news sources differ between generations, socioeconomic groups, racial and [...]
A fundamental question any research about trust in news must address is whether trust actually matters to audiences and, if so, how. The data here [...]
Among the 98 U.S. newspapers with circulations over 50,000, the American Press Institute found that 77 of them use a digital subscription model (79%).1Data was [...]
In the 1990s and 2000s, most newspapers were hesitant to charge for content. Publishers feared that if they were the only newspaper charging for content, [...]
Digital subscriptions reached a high point in 2015. In August, the New York Times reported that it had passed the 1 million paid digital subscribers [...]


