Special thanks to The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Tow Foundation and the team from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, including Director Emily Bell, Research Director Taylor Owen and Research Associate Lauren Mack. Additional thanks to our Research Associate, Kevin Matha. Our gratitude to Abigail Ronck for copy editing this Tow/Knight brief. Without all of your support this project would not have been possible. We also wish to thank our esteemed study participants, as well as our panelists, for striving to improve the news on a daily basis.