1、 FOR RELEASE AUGUST 20,2025 How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age Americans largely value journalists role in society but see their influence declining and often differ over who fits the label BY Kirsten Eddy,Michael Lipka,Katerina Eva Matsa,Naomi Forman-Katz,Jacob Liedke,Christopher St.
2、Aubin and Luxuan Wang FOR MEDIA OR OTHER INQUIRIES:Kirsten Eddy,Senior Researcher Katerina Eva Matsa,Director,News and Information Sogand Afkari,Communications Manager 202.419.4372 www.pewresearch.org RECOMMENDED CITATION Pew Research Center,August 2025,“How Americans View Journalists in the Digital
3、 Age”1 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan,nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues,attitudes and trends shaping the world.It does not take policy positions.The Center conducts public opinion polling,demographic
4、 research,computational social science research and other data-driven research.It studies politics and policy;news habits and media;the internet and technology;religion;race and ethnicity;international affairs;social,demographic and economic trends;science;research methodology and data science;and i
5、mmigration and migration.Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts,its primary funder.Pew Research Center 2025 2 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org How we did this Pew Research Center has been studying how Americans get news and information for many years,and it has becom
6、e clear that journalists place in society has been changing amid major political and technological shifts.So we asked everyday people for their views on this topic,including how they define a“journalist,”how they view journalists role in America,and what they want from their news providers more broa