News audiences in the United States have, overall, reduced their engagement with news since 2016. In that year, 51 percent of adults said that they followed the news all or most of the time, a figure which by 2022 had dropped to 38 percent. In the same time period, the percentage of adults who said they hardly ever followed the news almost doubled.
Level of engagement with news in the United States from 2016 to 2022
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Pew Research Center. (October 24, 2023). Level of engagement with news in the United States from 2016 to 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 06, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1423119/news-engagement-over-time-us/
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Pew Research Center. (2023). Level of engagement with news in the United States from 2016 to 2022. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 06, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1423119/news-engagement-over-time-us/
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Level of engagement with news in the United States from 2016 to 2022 [Graph], Pew Research Center, October 24, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1423119/news-engagement-over-time-us/