Black, Hispanic and white adults feel the news media misunderstand them, but for very different reasons

Tensions inside American newsrooms have emerged amid the recent protests over the killing of George Floyd while in police custody, including clashes between reporters and editors and concerns about newsroom diversity. While a recent study shows black Americans give high marks to the news media’s coverage of the protests, a survey conducted before the protests found deep divides between racial and ethnic groups in feelings of how the news media represent them.

Majority of Americans say news organizations don’t understand themWhile most Americans say that the news media do not...