Morning Consult | The Hollywood Reporter Survey: America's Most Trusted News Anchors
Decision intelligence company Morning Consult, on behalf of The Hollywood Reporter, reveals the most trusted television news personalities in America. This survey was fielded May 4th-5th, 2024 among 2239 U.S. adults. This is the second wave of research following it's initial coverage in November 2023.
Key Takeaways
NBC Nightly News host Lester Holt has the highest share of respondents, 65%, saying they placed “a lot” or “some” trust in the anchor, leading a new THR/Morning Consult poll
Among the most trusted are ABC’s Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts (64%) and World News Tonight anchor David Muir (63%), as well as NBC’s Today show staple Al Roker (64%).
On cable news, CNN’s Who’s Talking to... host Chris Wallace and Anderson Cooper both earned 60% of respondents saying they have “a lot” or “some” trust, while MSNBC’s most-trusted name is Ali Velshi (55%) and anchor Harris Faulkner (53%) leads for Fox News.
Methodology
The THR/Morning Consult poll was conducted from May 4-5, 2024 among a nationally representative sample of 2,239 U.S. adults with a margin of error of 2 percentage points for the full sample. Each item here was shown to smaller groups of respondents who were familiar with the reporter, and the margin of error varies.
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