1、 FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 18,2024 BY Galen Stocking,Luxuan Wang,Michael Lipka,Katerina Eva Matsa,Regina Widjaya,Emily Tomasik and Jacob Liedke FOR MEDIA OR OTHER INQUIRIES:Katerina Eva Matsa,Director,News and Information Research Galen Stocking,Senior Computational Social Scientist,Data Labs Sogand Afka

2、ri,Communications Manager 202.419.4372 www.pewresearch.org RECOMMENDED CITATION Pew Research Center,November 2024,“Americas News Influencers”2 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org About the Pew-Knight Initiative The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic informa

3、tion,form beliefs and identities,and engage in their communities.Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan,nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues,attitudes and trends shaping the world.Knight Foundation is a social investor committed to supporting informed and engaged communities.

4、Pew Research Center 2024 3 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org How we did this This study uses a multimethod approach to understanding news influencers,an emerging part of the news and information landscape.The project includes three different research components:a nationally representative surv

5、ey of U.S.adults conducted through Pew Research Centers American Trends Panel(ATP),an in-depth examination of a sample of 500 news influencers identified across five major social media sites,and a content analysis of 104,786 posts they produced during three distinct time periods in summer 2024.Surve

6、y The survey portion of this analysis was conducted from July 15 to Aug.4,2024,among 10,658 U.S.adults.Everyone who completed the survey is a member of the Centers ATP,a group of people recruited through national,random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly.This