

These divides are even more pronounced between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. 11, 2019, on Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel. At the same time, Democrats and independents who lean Democratic see most of those sources as credible and rely on them to a far greater degree, according to the survey of 12,043 U.S. Overall, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents view many heavily relied on sources across a range of platforms as untrustworthy. enters a heated 2020 presidential election year, a new Pew Research Center report finds that Republicans and Democrats place their trust in two nearly inverse news media environments. You can also find the questions we asked, and the answers the public provided, in this topline.Īs the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories.įor more, see the report’s methodology and this Q&A about the project. To further ensure that each survey reflects a balanced cross section of the nation, the data are weighted to match the U.S. This gives us confidence that any sample can represent the whole population. Recruiting our panelists by phone or mail ensures that nearly all U.S.

Everyone who took part is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. adults in October and November of 2019 and asked whether they had heard of or used any of 30 media sources, chosen so that respondents were asked about a range of news media across different platforms. We examine responses based on party identification to see whether Republicans and Democrats are turning to similar, or different, sources of information

In this study, we take a snapshot of the news outlets people rely on and trust for news about politics and the upcoming national elections. As the news media landscape continues to evolve, Americans’ news habits are also changing.
