Americans’ trust in information from national and local news organizations has increased over the past year, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
The survey found 62% trusted information from national news organizations, up 6 percentage points from a year earlier.
Trust in local news reached 75%, an increase of 5 percentage points.
Trust in information from social media sites was largely unchanged at 38%, compared with 37% a year earlier.
Among Democrats, 73% trusted national news information, compared with 50% of Republicans.
Local news drew trust from 81% of Democrats and 69% of Republicans.
Among adults younger than 30, trust in national news rose to 60% from 51%.
The nationally representative American Trends Panel survey included 5,193 adults and was conducted Sept. 14-20.
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