Traditional Reporting More Credible than Citizen News

Alecia Swasy*, Edson Tandoc, Manu Bhandari, Rachel Davis

*Corresponding author for this work

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)225-236
Number of pages12
JournalNewspaper Research Journal
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 1 2015
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © 2015 NOND of AEJMC.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Communication

Keywords

  • citizen journalism
  • credibility
  • Internet
  • MAIN model
  • news consumption
  • traditional journalists

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