Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center is an American "fact tank" based in Washington, D.C. that provides information and data on issues, attitudes and trends shaping the United States and the world. It was established in 2004 as a nonpartisan subsidiary of Pew Charitable Trusts.
The group's Journalism.org site focuses research on public opinion and issues within news media. It's research is often cited in media bias research done by AllSides, including the 2014 Where News Audiences Fit on the Political Spectrum study.
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Most Americans place at least some trust in the media outlet they turn to most frequently for political news. But their trust varies widely by political party and whether they see the outlet in question as part of the “mainstream media” or not – though in very different ways between Republicans and Democrats.
Overall, roughly eight-in-ten U.S. adults (83%) have at least some trust in the accuracy of the political news they get from their main news source, with 38% expressing a “great deal” of trust in it, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted March 8-14, 2021. Americans tend to have more trust in their main source for political news than they do in the news media more broadly: About two-in-ten adults (18%) express a great deal of trust in the accuracy of the political news they get from national news organizations (though a majority – 64% – have at least some trust).