How Americans Navigated the News in 2020: A Tumultuous Year in Review

Pew Research Center’s American News Pathways project conducted this study to understand how Americans interacted with the news and information throughout the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This analysis pulls data from a yearlong project that included 10 separate surveys of 9,000 or more U.S. adults. Everyone who completed each survey is a member of the Center’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 surveys are weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the