One possible explanation for declining trust in news organizations is blurry lines between news and opinion. If someone doesn’t like a commentator’s stance on particular [...]
In talks and presentations to students, journalists and news consumers, my first question for the audience often is: “What do you know about fact-checkers?” Someone [...]
Survey methodology The data used in this report were drawn from two independent surveys conducted by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the American [...]
Democrats feel better about the news they pay for than Republicans The more negative attitudes of Republicans and independents toward the media when compared with [...]
This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs [...]
Democrats have much more positive views of the media overall In our report on views on the media, Americans were asked a variety of questions [...]
Democrats and Republicans interact with news in similar ways, while independents are less newsy At a time when there seems a growing ideological divide in [...]
The number of fact-checking stories produced by journalists has increased dramatically in recent years, but could those stories be better at countering misinformation? Scholars and [...]
“S-Town,” the latest podcast from “Serial” and “This American Life,” is the entrancing story of the brilliant-but-tortured John B McLemore and his complicated life in [...]
Summary As Election Day approaches, more people seek news and information about politics. To understand the habits of news audiences in the run-up to [...]
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