
It is also roughly on par with the 39% who said they got political news from Fox in November 2019. That is about four times the portion who said they got political news in the past week from Newsmax (10%) and about six times the percentage who said the same of OAN (7%). adults say they got political news in the past week from Fox News. And it attracts roughly equal portions of White, Black and Hispanic Americans.įor their part, the much smaller Newsmax and OAN audiences are made up largely of older and White Americans and conservative Republicans.Īmong Republicans, Fox News is a much more common source than Newsmax or OAN, and is more ideologically mixed. While Fox does well among its conservative Republican core audience, it is also used by substantial portions of Democrats and ideologically moderate and liberal Republicans, according to the survey. In addition, while about three-in-ten Democrats and those who lean Democratic get political news from Fox, virtually none of them do from Newsmax and OAN, according the survey of 12,045 adults conducted March 8-14 on the Center’s American Trends Panel. But a new Pew Research Center survey finds that the long-standing cable superpower still has a much wider reach among both Republicans and Americans overall as a source of political news. Last year witnessed the rise of Newsmax and One America News (OAN), two alternative media outlets seen as potential competitors to Fox News. This is the latest report in Pew Research Center’s ongoing investigation of the state of news, information and journalism in the digital age, a research program funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, with generous support from the John S. Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. Everyone who took part is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. To better understand the ways Americans get their news in the digital age, we surveyed 12,045 U.S.
