1、 FOR RELEASE JULY 25,2024 How Americans Get Local Political News Most Americans follow news about local government and politics,yet only a quarter of them are highly satisfied with the quality of coverage BY Luxuan Wang,Michael Lipka,Katerina Eva Matsa,Christopher St.Aubin and Elisa Shearer FOR MEDI

2、A OR OTHER INQUIRIES:Katerina Eva Matsa,Director,News and Information Research Michael Lipka,Associate Director,News and Information Research Sogand Afkari,Communications Manager 202.419.4372 www.pewresearch.org RECOMMENDED CITATION Pew Research Center,July 2024,“How Americans Get Local Political Ne

3、ws”1 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org About the Pew-Knight Initiative The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information,form beliefs and identities,and engage in their communities.Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan,nonadvocacy fact tank that informs t

4、he public about the issues,attitudes and trends shaping the world.Knight Foundation is a social investor committed to supporting informed and engaged communities.Pew Research Center 2024 2 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this study to better unde

5、rstand how U.S.adults get news about local government and politics,as well as their attitudes toward this coverage.It is the second report in a series focused on local news.The survey of 5,146 U.S.adults was conducted from Jan.22 to 28,2024.Everyone who completed the survey is a member of the Center

6、s American Trends Panel(ATP),an online survey panel that is recruited through national,random sampling of residential addresses.This way nearly all U.S.adults have a chance of selection.The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S.adult population by gender,race,ethnicity,partisan affiliat