Trust in national and local news in the U.S. 2016-2022
News audiences in the United States are more likely to trust local news than national news, a 2022 survey revealed, with 71 percent of all respondents saying that they had a lot or some trust in local news, whereas just 61 percent said the same about national news. Five years earlier in 2016, the share of adults who felt that national news were a trustworthy source stood at 76 percent, 15 percent higher than in the 2022 survey.