Younger adults are more likely than older Americans to say they want news from journalists who are around the same age as them. Among U.S. adults ages 18 to 29, 23% say this is at least somewhat important, compared with 10% of those ages 65 and older.
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Republicans and Democrats are about equally likely to say it is at least somewhat important for the news they get to come from journalists who have the same political views as them.
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🚨NEW🚨 Most Americans say it is not important that the news they get comes from journalists who share their political views, age, gender or other traits. But people are more likely to want journalists to share their politics than other personal traits.
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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: The tension between political coverage on MSNBC and NBC News
📌In other news: Biden and Trump agree to presidential debates
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📊In this week's Chart:
Fewer people now say they prefer to get local news via TV (32%, down from 41% in 2018). Americans are now more likely to say they prefer to get local news online, either through news websites (26%) or social media (23%).
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Great report on local news from Pew Research Journalism. Lots of interesting changes from when we last looked at it in 2018. My fav: more Americans now get local news from online forums than from newspapers pewresearch.org/journalism/202…

In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: TV news faces instability before the U.S. election
📌In other news: Israel forces Al Jazeera to close local operations
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📊In this week's Chart:
While Americans largely value the concept of press freedom, they are more evenly divided when it comes to the tension between protecting a free press and preventing the spread of false information.
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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Should Big Tech credit the news sources it uses in AI?
📌In other news: A look at Columbia University’s radio station during the student protests
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📊In this week's Chart:
In a 2023 survey, about six-in-ten Americans (59%) said they see TikTok as a major or minor threat to national security in the United States.
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NEW from Pew Research Journalism ahead of World Press Freedom Day: 'Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (73%) say the freedom of the press – enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – is extremely or very important to the well-being of society.' pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Launch of the first audio platform dedicated to women’s sports
📌In other news: Where jurors in the Trump trial say they get their news
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🚨NEW🚨A large majority of Americans see the freedom of the press as highly important to the well-being of society, but many express concerns about potential restrictions on press freedoms in the U.S.

Ahead of #WorldPressFreedomDay , explore our findings: pewrsr.ch/4aV7YTl

Black Americans see opportunities to improve news coverage of Black people. Most Black adults say it is important that journalists and reporters cover all sides of the issues (76%) and understand the history of the issues (73%) when covering Black people. pewrsr.ch/48uE3zx

📊In this week's Chart:
2% of U.S. adults say they have a great deal or quite a bit of trust in election info from ChatGPT, while 10% have some trust and 38% have little to no trust.
About half are not sure (15%) or say they haven’t heard of ChatGPT (34%)
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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Major TV networks to push for Biden-Trump debates
📌In other news: NPR defends its journalism amid criticism of “bias”
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📊In this week's Chart:
22% of U.S. adults say they have been following the news about the the Israel-Hamas war extremely or very closely, while an additional 35% are following somewhat closely.
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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Facebook News tab is going away in the U.S.
📌In other news: Israel to shut down Al Jazeera’s presence in the country
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📊In this week's Chart:
75% of Americans say generative AI programs should have to credit the sources they rely on if they provide information that matches what a journalist wrote nearly word-for-word.
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