Most Americans prefer digital sources of news

 Pew Research - This week, we released two fact sheets examining the shares of Americans who get news from various platforms as well as specific social media sites. We also used this new data to update our analysis of how many Americans get news on TikTok.

Nearly six-in-ten Americans say they prefer to get news from a digital device (58%), higher than the share who say they prefer TV (27%). Even fewer Americans prefer radio (6%) or print (5%). Facebook outpaces other social media sites in the share of Americans who regularly get news there, although YouTube is close behind. Three-in-ten U.S. adults say they regularly get news on Facebook, while 26% say the same about YouTube. But the share of Americans who regularly get news on TikTok has surged from 3% in 2020 to 14% in 2023.

We also released two fact sheets last week looking at data on audience and economics for the newspaper industry and digital news.

In 2022, estimated total U.S. daily newspaper circulation (print and digital combined) was 20.9 million for both weekday and Sunday, down 8% and 10% respectively from 2021. The average number of unique monthly visitors to the top digital news websites has fallen from 32.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 to 27.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2022. The length of the average visit to these sites also is getting shorter.

Explore all the fact sheets from our State of the News Media project.