Is the news real or fake? Can you tell the difference? Only 50 percent of Americans think they can, according to a Gallup survey, down from ...

Americans' trust in the mass media has fallen to a new low, reports Gallup. From a high of 72 percent in 1976, the percentage of America...

Percentage of young adults and older Americans who often get their news from (ranked by source)... Aged 18 to 29 34% from websites/apps ...

Newspaper employment has plummeted over the past two decades, according to a Demo Memo analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics' data, wi...

Until the introduction of the smartphone in 2007, the effect of the internet on employment in traditional media—newspapers, magazines, and b...

One of the many topics examined in Pew's State of the News Media 2015 report is media consumption by platform. Interestingly, print rem...

The 58 percent majority of American adults use Facebook, according to a survey by Pew Research Center. Among online adults, the figure is 71...

Good news: Digital news outlets have created 5,000 full-time editorial jobs in the past decade. Bad news: "It is far from clear there ...

Younger generations spend less time than older adults following the news, and over the years the differential has not diminished. Since 2004...

The 53 percent majority of American households subscribe to cable television service. But boomers and older Americans are far more likely to...

The number of full-time professional editorial jobs at the nation's newspapers fell by a steep 18,400 between 2000 and 2012—a 33 percent...

Among Americans who watch selected types of television programming, percentage who most often watch shows live (or delayed)... Professiona...

Employment in the information industry peaked in 2000 at 3,630,000, according to an analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics . By 2011, th...

If you wonder why the country has become so polarized in recent years, you aren't alone. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dall...

Only 13 percent of Americans are news junkies, agreeing with the statement, "I am a news junkie; it's a favorite leisure time activ...

Percent of Americans aged 16 or older who have read a book in whole or in part, in any format, in the past 12 months... Total, 16-plus: 78...

Preferred way to get news, by generation in percent...     TV   Online      Print Total pop: 50 36 10 ...

A shrinking share of the public uses paper to get news and information on a typical day, according to Pew Research Center. Between 2002 and ...

If you worry that reading is on the decline, worry no more. Fully 81 percent of Americans aged 16 or older read a book in the past 12 months...