A new Pew Research Center survey asked Americans their opinion on 30 major media sources, and the answers were divided along political lines. A noteworthy statistic from the survey is that one of the most influential news sources among Republicans is a podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience.

Twenty-two percent of Republicans surveyed said they regularly get their news from the Rogan show; 2 percent of Democrats said the same. Thirty-one percent of Republicans said they trusted it as a source of news (second only to Fox News); 3 percent of Democrats agreed.

The Joe Rogan Experience was the only podcast with a large enough audience to be included in the Pew survey (it’s the most watched podcast on both YouTube and Spotify and was No. 4 on Apple Podcasts, according to the New York Times). But the show’s strong results in the survey provide evidence of the growing influence of podcasts as a news source.

Here at Ad Fontes, our analysts have been listening to and rating podcasts for years. In fact, we’ve analyzed episodes from more than 900 shows and have fully rated 800 of them. The June edition of the Podcast/Audio Media Bias Chart® released today includes 47 podcasts (see the full list here). You’ll find The Joe Rogan Experience near the bottom middle of the chart. To understand why it’s rated where it is, please see this video.

We choose a selection of podcasts to include on each month’s static media bias chart because it’s impossible to show all of them in one image. In order to make the logos as large and as readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

Sources in the green box of the chart are recommended by our team to provide minimally biased, fact-based information. On this month’s chart, 11 podcasts fall within the green box: 

• CBC News: The World This Hour
• CBS News Roundup
• GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
• NYT: The Ezra Klein Show
• School of War
• StarTalk Radio
• The McCarthy Report
• The World and Everything In It
• UNBIASED Politics
• Unchained Podcast
• UnCommon Law

More podcasts fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.

Seven podcasts are included on the chart this month for the first time (three of these fall within the green box):

• Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams
• Congressional Dish
• GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
• School of War
• The Eric Metaxas Show
• The Sage Steele Show
• Unchained Podcast

Don’t see your favorite podcast on the June chart? You can access the free version of the interactive chart on the website, which allows access to data on 250 of our top sources. Daily search limits apply. For expanded access, please consider a News Nerd subscription, which gives you the ability to search all sources we’ve rated and provides many additional benefits.

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