{"id":87634,"date":"2022-06-14T10:51:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-see-political-sorting-of-news-audiences-as-a-much-bigger-problem-than-the-public-does\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:05:02","slug":"journalists-see-political-sorting-of-news-audiences-as-a-much-bigger-problem-than-the-public-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-see-political-sorting-of-news-audiences-as-a-much-bigger-problem-than-the-public-does\/","title":{"rendered":"5. Journalists see political sorting of news audiences as a much bigger problem than the public does"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Americans\u2019 increased political polarization has also played out in the news environment in various ways, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2020\/01\/24\/americans-are-divided-by-party-in-the-sources-they-turn-to-for-political-news\/\">sources people turn to for news<\/a>, what they <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/10\/12\/republicans-who-rely-most-on-trump-for-covid-19-news-see-the-outbreak-differently-from-those-who-dont\/\">believe about certain current events<\/a>, and their views of the <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/08\/30\/partisan-divides-in-media-trust-widen-driven-by-a-decline-among-republicans\/\">news media more broadly<\/a>. As a part of this study, researchers explored the thoughts of journalists themselves about the impact of the country\u2019s political dynamics on journalism and the information environment more broadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-see-political-sorting-of-news-audiences-as-a-much-bigger-problem-than-the-public-does\/pj_2022-06-14_journalist-survey_5-01\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e3ddde\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"682\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-01-1.png?resize=480,390 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-01-1.png?resize=782,635 782w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-01-1.png?resize=840,682 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-01-1.png\" alt=\"Bar chart showing journalists far more concerned than the public about like-minded people clustering around the same news outlets\" class=\"wp-image-182121 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e3ddde; width:420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, journalists are far more concerned than the American public about people with similar political views getting news from the same sources. Three-quarters of journalists surveyed say this is a major problem, and another 19% say it is a minor problem. Just 5% do not see it as problematic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This concern cuts across both journalists who say their news organization\u2019s audience leans to the right politically and those who say their audience leans left. (Those working for more than one organization were asked about the <em>main<\/em> one they work for.) Among those who say their organization\u2019s audience leans to the right politically, nearly three-quarters (73%) say the political sorting of news audiences is a major problem, as do 71% of those whose audience leans to the left and 79% of those who say their audience is more politically mixed. (<a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalist-survey-appendix-detailed-tables-of-the-composition-of-the-journalist-survey-sample\">See Appendix<\/a> for the portion of the sample who say their organization\u2019s audience leans one way or the other politically.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American public is not as concerned. In a separate representative survey of 10,441 U.S. adults conducted March 7-13, roughly four-in-ten U.S. adults (39%) say it is a major problem when people with similar political views get news from the same organizations. About the same percentage (36%) say it is a minor problem, while 23% say it is not a problem at all \u2013 nearly five times the share of journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;journalists-less-likely-than-the-public-to-say-each-side-of-a-story-always-deserves-equal-coverage&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"journalists-less-likely-than-the-public-to-say-each-side-of-a-story-always-deserves-equal-coverage\">Journalists less likely than the public to say each side of a story always deserves equal coverage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-see-political-sorting-of-news-audiences-as-a-much-bigger-problem-than-the-public-does\/pj_2022-06-14_journalist-survey_5-02\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"ded5ce\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"1174\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-02-1.png?resize=480,671 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-02-1.png?resize=782,1093 782w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-02-1.png?resize=840,1174 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-02-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182124 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #ded5ce; width:420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another area of journalism that is often seen through a political lens is the question of news stories representing \u201call sides\u201d of an issue and\/or giving equal voice. This concept is often referred to as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_media_today\/both-sides-impeachment-trump.php\">\u201cbothsidesism\u201d<\/a> in journalism \u2013 which revolves around whether those making false statements or unsupported conjecture warrant as much attention as people making factual statements with solid supporting evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This debate gained a new level of intensity during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency and the <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2021\/02\/22\/misinformation-and-competing-views-of-reality-abounded-throughout-2020\/\">widespread disinformation and competing views<\/a> around both the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A small majority of journalists (55%) say that every side does <em>not<\/em> always deserve equal coverage, while 44% say journalists should always strive to give every side equal coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American public, on the other hand, expresses much stronger support for the concept of equal coverage. In another representative survey of 9,388 U.S. adults conducted Feb. 7-13, about three-quarters of U.S. adults (76%) express the view that journalists should always strive to give every side equal coverage. Majorities in both parties feel this way, although Republicans and those who lean toward the GOP (87%) are more inclined than Democrats and Democratic leaners (68%) to hold this view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is also an area where journalists themselves disagree based on the political leaning of their news organization\u2019s audience. Journalists who say their news organizations have audiences that lean to the right politically are much more likely to endorse equal coverage of all voices than those who say their organizations\u2019 audiences lean left. Nearly six-in-ten journalists with right-leaning audiences (57%) say journalists should always strive to give equal coverage, almost twice the share who say this among those with left-leaning audiences (30%), and somewhat higher than the share among journalists who say their outlet has a politically mixed audience (49%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;journalists-have-mixed-views-on-whether-they-can-keep-their-personal-views-out-of-their-reporting&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"journalists-have-mixed-views-on-whether-they-can-keep-their-personal-views-out-of-their-reporting\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Journalists have mixed views on whether they can keep their personal views out of their reporting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the central questions about bias in news coverage is whether journalists can detach their personal views from their work. While journalists strongly agree that they <em>should<\/em> keep their personal views out of their reporting, there is less agreement over whether they are able to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-see-political-sorting-of-news-audiences-as-a-much-bigger-problem-than-the-public-does\/pj_2022-06-14_journalist-survey_5-03\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"dfd7d2\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"678\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-03-1.png?resize=480,387 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-03-1.png?resize=782,631 782w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-03-1.png?resize=840,678 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-03-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182123 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #dfd7d2; width:420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large majority of journalists surveyed (82%) say journalists should separate their views from what they report on. A considerably smaller majority (55%) think journalists are largely able to do this, while 43% say journalists are often unable to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These figures are similar regardless of journalists\u2019 audience makeup: 55% of those who say their organization\u2019s audience leans to the right politically feel journalists are largely able to separate their views from their reporting, as do 52% of those who say their audience leans left and 58% who say their organization\u2019s audience is politically mixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-see-political-sorting-of-news-audiences-as-a-much-bigger-problem-than-the-public-does\/pj_2022-06-14_journalist-survey_5-04\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e6e1de\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"794\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-04-1.png?resize=480,454 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-04-1.png?resize=782,739 782w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-04-1.png?resize=840,794 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/PJ_2022.06.14_journalist-survey_5-04-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182122 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e6e1de; width:420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, three-quarters of U.S. journalists believe in journalists\u2019 ability to agree on the basic facts of issues and events in the topic area (or beat) they cover, even if journalists report on these facts in different ways.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many journalists acknowledge that significant segments of the public will not find their stories accurate. About half of journalists in the survey (52%) say it is <em>not<\/em> possible to report news that nearly everyone finds accurate, while 47% say it is possible to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The public is even more pessimistic than journalists on this front, with 62% saying it is not possible to report news that nearly everyone finds accurate, far more than the 37% who say this is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans\u2019 increased political polarization has also played out in the news environment in various ways, including the sources people turn to for news, what they believe about certain current events, and their views of the news media more broadly. 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Journalists express high job satisfaction but are concerned about the state of the news industry","slug":"journalists-express-high-job-satisfaction-but-are-concerned-about-the-state-of-the-news-industry","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-express-high-job-satisfaction-but-are-concerned-about-the-state-of-the-news-industry\/","is_active":false},{"id":87596,"title":"2. Journalists highly concerned about misinformation, future of press freedoms","slug":"journalists-highly-concerned-about-misinformation-future-of-press-freedoms","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-highly-concerned-about-misinformation-future-of-press-freedoms\/","is_active":false},{"id":87650,"title":"3. Many journalists say social media helps at work, but most decry its impact on journalism","slug":"many-journalists-say-social-media-helps-at-work-but-most-decry-its-impact-on-journalism","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/many-journalists-say-social-media-helps-at-work-but-most-decry-its-impact-on-journalism\/","is_active":false},{"id":87617,"title":"4. Journalists and the public differ on how journalists are doing, how connected they are","slug":"journalists-and-the-public-differ-on-how-journalists-are-doing-how-connected-they-are","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-and-the-public-differ-on-how-journalists-are-doing-how-connected-they-are\/","is_active":false},{"id":87634,"title":"5. Journalists see political sorting of news audiences as a much bigger problem than the public does","slug":"journalists-see-political-sorting-of-news-audiences-as-a-much-bigger-problem-than-the-public-does","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-see-political-sorting-of-news-audiences-as-a-much-bigger-problem-than-the-public-does\/","is_active":true},{"id":87605,"title":"6. Journalists give industry mixed reviews on newsroom diversity, lowest marks in racial and ethnic diversity","slug":"journalists-give-industry-mixed-reviews-on-newsroom-diversity-lowest-marks-in-racial-and-ethnic-diversity","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2022\/06\/14\/journalists-give-industry-mixed-reviews-on-newsroom-diversity-lowest-marks-in-racial-and-ethnic-diversity\/","is_active":false},{"id":87600,"title":"7. 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