The communication landscape is ever changing. The 2025 Digital News Report from the Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that social media is now where most Americans get their news.
For the first time, social media has displaced television as the top way Americans get news. “The proportion accessing news via social media and video networks in the United States (54%) is sharply up,” the report’s authors write, “overtaking both TV news (50%) and news websites/apps (48%) for the first time.”