More than 70 percent of adults in the United States follow local and national news somewhat or very closely, while 65 percent follow international news with the same regularity, a survey from the Pew Research Center finds.

Conducted in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the two-part survey, the Modern News Consumer, found that 81 percent of Americans use a screen — television, computer, or mobile device — to access news and that, increasingly, digital news consumption is done via mobile, with more than half of those who access news on their desktop computer and mobile devices expressing a preference for mobile. The survey also found that just two in ten adults in the U.S. (20 percent) get their news from print newspapers, down from 27 percent in 2013.

Few news consumers place much trust in the information they get from professional outlets, however, and fewer still trust the information they get via family or friends, with only two in ten Americans saying they trust the information they get from local (22 percent) or national (18 percent) news organizations a lot, and only 14 percent saying they trust the information they get from their friends and family. At the same time, more than three-quarters of the respondents said they had some trust in news organizations and their families and friends as sources of news, with all three ranking much higher than social media as a trusted news source. Indeed, only 4 percent of Web-using adults said they had a lot of trust in the information they find on social media, while 34 percent said they had some trust.

According to a blog post on the Pew Research Fact Tank site, a clear challenge for the news media is the deeply rooted sense of bias the public perceives in their reporting. While three-quarters of Americans (74 percent) give news organizations credit for functioning as watchdogs and keeping political leaders from doing things they shouldn't be doing, about the same percentage say news organizations tend to favor one side.