In 1985, three British writers, George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton created Max Headroom, a glitching, stuttering ...

Young Americans are increasingly relying on social media platforms, where news influencers—not traditional legacy outlets—often hold sway over their news and information diets. Nearly 40 percent of 18 ...

About 1 in 5 Americans say they regularly get their news from "news influencers" on social media, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. The rise of social media personalities doling out ...

This is a very exciting day! In addition to a fresh makeover for this newsletter, I just published a new project today outlining some of the biggest names in online political influencing from both the ...

Not long ago, the idea of getting paid to share your morning routine online would have sounded absurd. Yet today, influencers are big business: The global market is expected to surpass US$32 billion ...

Political money is flowing to social media influencers, including in California’s gubernatorial race. Candidates like ...

For our latest survey data about news influencers, read the “News Influencers Fact Sheet.” About half of all YouTube news influencers explicitly express a clear political orientation. Among those who ...