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The Evolving News Landscape: Comparing Media Habits and Trust Between Teens and Adults

Older adults are more likely to show stronger confidence in traditional news outlets while teens and young adults distribute trust more evenly across traditional outlets and alternative sources of information like independent creators.

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Media Insight Project Expands With New Partners

Northwestern University and the University of Maryland Join Ongoing Effort with the American Press Institute and the AP-NORC Center to Advance Research on News, Media, and Democracy April 15th, 2026 — The Media Insight Project, a collaboration of the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research since 2014, announced today…

Culture and Society

Closed captioning on? It’s a generational thing

A third often use subtitles or closed captioning when watching movies or television. Younger adults are more likely than older adults to regularly do so.

Culture and Society

More catch-up with late-night shows through clips than watch the full program

About 50% of the public has seen all or most of a late-night show in the past year. Even more have caught a clip from a show later on.

Culture and Society

Half the public are fans of sports, but it’s the 1 in 5 who are super fans adopting sports streaming services

Sixty percent of sports super fans use sports-only streaming platforms, like ESPN+ or MLB TV. Overall, a quarter of sports fans are dissatisfied with the availability of sports events on cable television or streaming services.

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