This study explores U.S. adults’ views of and experiences with podcasts as a part of the news and information landscape. To examine the ways Americans get news and information in a digital age, Pew ...

In recent years, growing numbers of news organizations in the U.S. have begun to systematically track the demographics or other characteristics of the sources they cover and experts they quote.

Aside from weather, more Americans get news about local crime than any other local news topic we asked about in our survey. Roughly three-quarters of U.S. adults (77%) say they often or sometimes get ...

To evaluate whether health information you’ve found online is reliable, you can consider its sources, evaluate it for bias, and check it against what trustworthy sources are saying on the topic.

We rarely stop to think about the lightning speed of modern information access. Try picturing a time when answers lived only in libraries – it seems archaic now. Search tools have become so powerful ...

To be truly literate in the modern world, you need more than the ability to read, write and understand the meaning of words and sentences. You need to develop other forms of literacy, including visual ...

Reliable health information online uses high quality, recent, peer-reviewed research. People should look for balanced information and site transparency and avoid websites that use sensationalism or ...