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Saturday, August 7th, 2021

State of the Media: Digital NewsFact Sheet

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Source:     Pew Research Center
Publication Date:     27 July 2021
 Link: State of the Media: Digital NewsFact Sheet
Stephan:   The development of digital media has fundamentally altered human culture, most notably in the United States, because it has allowed disinformation to be weaponized. What in the past would have been a drunk declaiming in a seedy bar, can now become a national movement. The evidence for this is irrefutable. It is made evident each day.

The vast majority of adults in the United States get at least some news online (via smartphone, computer or tablet), and the online space has become a host for the digital homes of both legacy news outlets and new, “born on the web” news outlets.* Digital advertising revenue across all digital entities (beyond just news) continues to grow, with technology companies playing a large role in the flow of both news and revenue. Explore the patterns and longitudinal data about digital news below.

Audience

Credit: Pew Research

The news outlets included in this analysis are those whose primary domain – the outlet’s flagship website – averaged at least 10 million unique visitors per month from October to December of each year analyzed, according to Comscore, a cross-platform audience measurement company. This includes both digital-native news publishers, such as Axios or HuffPost, and so-called “legacy” news organizations (those that originated in print or broadcast) like The New York Times or Fox News that met those traffic levels. There were 97 such outlets in 2020 (for a full list of outlets and collection methods, see the 

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    I am ashamed to say that I cannot convince my wife’s daughter to get vaccinated. She believes in the unproven rumors instead of science.