Kirsten Eddy and Elisa Shearer at Pew:
Overall, 56% of U.S. adults now say they have a lot of or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations – down 11 percentage points since March 2025 and 20 points since we first asked this question in 2016. The share of Americans who have at least some trust in information from local news organizations remains higher (70%), although it has also dropped – from 80% in March and 82% in 2016.
Fewer than half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (44%) now say they have at least some trust in the information that comes from national news organizations. This is down from 53% in March and 70% in 2016, but it’s still above its lowest point in 2021, when 35% of Republicans expressed this level of trust in the national media.