Statistics
Source-based context and useful figures about journalism & media innovation, with dates and limitations explained.
Funding data shows how nonprofit newsrooms combine grants, individual giving, earned revenue, salary support, and crowdfunding to sustain investigative work.
A source-based overview of journalism and media graduate outcomes, earnings, occupation wages, employer sectors, geographic concentration, and U.S. forecasts.
A data-led overview of how people consume news, how journalism jobs are changing, and the economic and safety pressures facing journalists.
Journalist statistics show a changing U.S. labor market, wide pay differences, strong digital dependence, and serious safety risks around the world.
U.S. local-news statistics show how county-level news scarcity affects populations, rural communities, digital access, and public-media reach.
These media industry statistics show where audiences find news, how platform use varies across groups, and where marketers planned to put media budgets in 2024.
Media innovation is reshaping newsroom work, audience distribution, revenue strategy, and public expectations around AI-generated journalism.
Mobile news reaches broad audiences through online sources, social platforms, search, aggregators, and alerts, but usage varies sharply by age, market, and pathway.
News app statistics show how U.S. adults use digital devices, websites and apps, with audience differences by age, education, race and politics.
Fact-checking has global reach, but its organizations face short lifespans, concentrated funding and uneven local coverage.
News podcast audiences vary by market, age and demographic group, with measurable differences in exposure, format preferences and trust.
A source-linked view of how news advertising revenue has shifted between print and digital, from U.S. newspapers to major publishers.
News startups are expanding across digital, nonprofit, and network models while facing concentrated advertising, fragile local coverage, and changing audience habits.
A source-linked overview of news website referral traffic, audience gateways, platform reach, direct access, video consumption, and AI chatbot click-through behavior.
A source-linked overview of how news organisations are adopting artificial intelligence, where they are deploying it, and how audiences respond.
A data-focused look at newsroom employment, pay, local news capacity, public trust, newsroom diversity, artificial intelligence, and platform traffic.
A source-linked overview of U.S. newsroom workforce diversity, including race, gender, age, leadership and journalists' assessments of inclusion.
Nonprofit journalism is growing, but its financial and staffing patterns vary sharply by outlet size, geography, and revenue mix.
Revenue data from INN members shows the scale, funding mix and operating choices shaping nonprofit journalism.
Paywall statistics show how willingness to pay differs by country, audience, and publisher, from access behavior to subscription growth.
Podcast journalism reaches younger audiences strongly, supports in-depth explanation, and shows a clear gap between audience interest and direct funding.
A data-led overview of how Americans get news through social platforms, including differences by age, platform and source.
A data-focused overview of solutions journalism's documented scale, audience research, training programs, collaborations, and organizational spending.
Survey data shows widespread but uneven AI use in journalism, with practical applications expanding faster than formal workplace guidance.
Audience engagement is expanding across feeds, connected TVs, short-form video, podcasts, music discovery, and live community features.
Data journalism grew across newsrooms, freelance work, education, and digital reporting, while access to quality data, time, and training remained central challenges.
Digital journalism is increasingly mobile, platform-led and subscription-supported, but trust, attention and business models remain uneven.
A data-led look at digital news subscription retention, including payment trends, renewal pressure, engagement signals, and publisher benchmarks.
Employment data shows how U.S. newsrooms changed from 2004 through 2024, from newspaper contraction to the small-team model of nonprofit local news.
Survey evidence shows how trust in news organizations, local reporting, and social media information varies across age groups.