Until recently, the world’s news media was dominated by the main commercial television networks. However, the internet has enabled new competitors to emerge with business models that provide automated and efficient ways of performing news gathering. These models can be used by traditional outlets or by freelance journalists who produce and distribute news content directly to online consumers.
In addition to local news broadcasters, some national broadcasters produce regional or nationally focused news programming. In the United States, PBS, CBS and NBC each offer a national news program. The BBC offers a global version of its morning program called World Today, and Australia’s Nine Network produces local news programs in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, and Adelaide (which air locally as Seven News). In many countries, public broadcasters also show regional or national news programs. In Norway, for example, NRK’s flagship station NRK1 shows a local news program in each of its regions each weekday evening, and a replay of the national newscast Dagsrevyen is shown on NRK2 the following morning.
Both Republicans and Democrats generally trust the news media more than they distrust it. The difference, however, is more about specific outlets than about general attitudes toward the news. Specifically, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say that most news sources are liberal; a similar number of Republicans think most outlets lean right.
In terms of specific news outlets, the most trusted are Fox News and CNN. However, the gap between these two outlets and other outlets has remained fairly stable over time. This could be due to the fact that people who use these outlets regularly tend to have more positive impressions of them than those who do not, or because most people in America have a limited number of news sources they use frequently.
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