Abstract
In an experiment comparing traditional news reporting to citizen blogs, university students rated traditional journalism as more credible than citizen journalism. Also, participants assessed straight news articles as more credible than opinionated reports of the same news.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 225-236 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Newspaper Research Journal |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jun 2015 |
Keywords
- citizen journalism
- credibility
- Internet
- MAIN model
- news consumption
- traditional journalists