Traditional Reporting More Credible than Citizen News

Alecia Swasy; Edson Tandoc; Manu Bhandari; Rachel Davis

doi:10.1177/0739532915587298

Traditional Reporting More Credible than Citizen News

Alecia Swasy, Edson Tandoc, Manu Bhandari, Rachel Davis

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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
Pages (from-to)	225-236
Number of pages	12
Journal	Newspaper Research Journal
Volume	36
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532915587298
State	Published - 1 Jun 2015

Keywords

citizen journalism
credibility
Internet
MAIN model
news consumption
traditional journalists

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