Title: How we evaluated Americans' trust in 30 news sources | Pew Research Center
Headings: Q&A: How Pew Research Center evaluated Americans’ trust in 30 news sources
Q&A: How Pew Research Center evaluated Americans’ trust in 30 news sources
The study examines public trust in 30 U.S. media outlets for political and election news. How did you choose these outlets? Why weren’t some well-known outlets included?
How did you measure Americans’ trust and distrust in these outlets?
How did you measure changes in trust over time?
The study refers to the audiences of different news outlets as “left-leaning,” “right-leaning” or “mixed.” How did you make these determinations? And are you saying that some of these outlets themselves are “left-leaning” or “right-leaning”?
Why does the study include more outlets with left-leaning audiences than right-leaning audiences?
What do you hope readers will take away from this study?

Content: How we evaluated Americans' trust in 30 news sources | Pew Research Center
Q&A: How Pew Research Center evaluated Americans’ trust in 30 news sources
By John Gramlich
Americans are sharply divided along partisan lines when it comes to the media outlets they turn to and trust for their political and election-related news, according to a new Pew Research Center study. Amy Mitchell, director of journalism research at Pew Research Center
More Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents trust than distrust most of the 30 outlets in the study, but the reverse is true among Republicans and GOP leaners. And while Democrats’ trust in many of these outlets has remained stable or in some cases increased since 2014, Republicans have become more alienated from some of them, widening an already substantial partisan gap. Amy Mitchell has directed the Center’s journalism research since 2012 and oversaw the new study, which is based on an online survey of more than 12,000 U.S. adults. The study serves as the framework for our new Election News Pathways project. In this Q&A, she answers key questions about how the analysis was done and what it says about Americans’ news habits as the first votes of the 2020 presidential election cycle loom. The study examines public trust in 30 U.S. media outlets for political and election news. How did you choose these outlets? Why weren’t some well-known outlets included?