The American Press Institute is beginning a new effort to support audience-centered accountability and government reporting, starting with a kickoff event June 17. Through discussion, [...]
Americans who value loyalty and authority most highly tend to be the most skeptical of the news media. In experiments with readers, however, we see [...]
The deep divides over trust in the news media are usually portrayed as largely ideological. Democrats are seven times more likely than Republicans to say [...]
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 [...]
Story 1. Pollution story Standard Version At-risk neighborhood now facing new health threat from toxic drinking water A toxic chemical has polluted drinking water at [...]
Moral Foundations Theory Questionnaire This survey used a battery of questions often used in academic studies to assess respondents’ inclinations toward values in Moral Foundations [...]
Cluster analysis: Four groups of Americans based on their responses to moral and journalistic values
Despite partisan differences, Americans’ attitudes about journalism are more complicated than a simple Democrat versus Republican divide. To better understand how values relate to views [...]
Half of the current decline in trust occurred before the widespread adoption of the public internet and so much news coverage moved online and or [...]
While the majority of our research looked at how moral foundations intersect with perceptions of core journalistic concepts and content, we also wanted to test [...]
To provide our own baseline for trust with respondents, we began by asking about their level of trust in the news media. We asked the [...]
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