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This study was designed to compare the credibility of news posted on news media-sponsored World Wide Web homepages, organization-sponsored homepages, or shown on television. There is evident concern among journalists over the public's perception of news credibility, and it seems there is an intuitive link between high channel credibility and increased use of that channel or medium. However, this study provides evidence that media credibility is only of secondary importance to news users as they decide where to get their news. While people do make credibility judgments about the news channels they use, they do not necessarily choose to use or not use a channel based on its perceived credibility.
This volume offers unique and timely insights on the state of online news, exploring the issues surrounding this convergence of print and electronic platforms, and the public's response to it. It provides an overview of online newspapers, including current trends and legal issues and covering issues of credibility and perceptions by online news users. The heart of the book is formed by empirical studies-mostly social surveys-coming out of the media effects and uses traditions. The chapters are grounded in theoretical frameworks and bring much-needed theory to the study of online news. The frameworks guiding these studies include media credibility, the third-person effect, media displacement, and uses and gratifications. The book ends with a section devoted to research on online news postings. This book is appropriate for scholars, researchers, and students in journalism, mass communication, new media, and related areas, and will be of interest to anyone examining how people use the web as a source for news.
The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether audiences are sensitive to the credibility and identity of the various news providers on the World Wide Web and, if so, what are the effects of perceived source credibility and identity on cognitive, attitudinal, and conative responses to the online news services and their content, both news and advertising. An experiment was conducted with two different samples, a convenience sample of 471 undergraduate students, and a sample of 402 Midwestern community residents, more than half of them recruited randomly. The main manipulation, identity of an online news provider, had four levels: a newspaper online (source identified, associated with journalism); a television network online (source identified, associated with journalism, but representing a different medium), a travel agency online (source identified, no association with journalism), and no identity (control, also testing the default inferences about the particular Web news service viewed). An exploratory part of the study found people are sensitive to source, specifically whether it is identified or not; to the content presented in the media; and to the technology that delivers the content. Tests of twelve hypotheses showed people are also sensitive to the identity of the online content provider, specifically whether it is associated with journalism or not and whether it is specialized in a particular area. Further, participants differed in their responses to a newspaper online and a television network online. Among the four experimental conditions, sources associated with journalism, e.g., an online newspaper or a television network online, were found most credible. Stories and ads in them were perceived as most credible. Stories were more likely to be correctly recalled if the source was perceived to be a newspaper. There was also some evidence for better ad recall and ad claim recognition in the newspaper and television conditions. Attitudes toward the stories were most positive in the newspaper as perceived source. Attitudes toward the brands were the best in the television condition and there was also evidence the newspaper condition was positively associated with attitudes toward the brands. Finally, likelihood of subscribing to the online news service was the highest among those participants in the student sample who perceived the online source as a newspaper.
News credibility studies have been around since radio and television began competing with the newspaper industry for consumers' attention. However, at this time, the news industry is experiencing a shift in medium as the Internet is quickly becoming the predominant source by which many get their news. Due to the free and independent nature of the Internet and the rise of blogging as a source by which people get news and information, audience perception of what constitutes a credible source needed to be examined. This study took the dimensions of news credibility that have been set in previous studies and compared them against an individual?s news blog use to see if there was any change in what was important in measuring credibility. Through these comparisons, the measure that was used in previous studies did not seem deep enough and did not produce the expected outcome. Barely touching on each dimension, this study calls for individual studies on each dimension that would provide a better look at how credibility is perceived by news blog users.
ABSTRACT: Three major factors influence audience's credibility perception of mediated news on television and on the internet. This study found that reporters' credibility, media credibility, and news credibility had direct influence to the credibility of news presented on both media. Reporters' credibility on both media could be measured by their expertise, intelligence, education, trustworthiness, and authoritativeness. Television and the internet were evaluated differently. Television was measured by its comprehensiveness, concern for the interest of the public, and fairness. The internet was assessed on its trustworthiness, consideration of public interest, and objectivity. News credibility for both media, however, could be evaluated using the same measures such as news trustworthiness and objectivity.
Abstract: This study confirms previous literature discoveries that perceived credibility of medium, source and message have a direct influence on the perceived credibility of online political news. Each credibility factor is examined separately to identify its influence and strength on the dependent variable. Medium credibility, Internet, is considered the factor that has the strongest influence on perceived credibility of online political news, followed by the source then finally message of online political news. Consumption of online political news has also a direct influence on perception of credibility of online political news but to a much lesser extent. Timely coverage, freedom of speech and dynamic representation are Internet’s inherent features and are highly recognized by Egyptian youth as credibility factors. As for other credibility factors related to believability, objectivity and balance youth become more skeptical about credibility of online political news. Many reasons led to this doubtful view but the most apparent reason in this study is attributed to the abuse of Internet as a communication tool for online political news and lack of regulation. Hence, the uncontrollable freedom of publishing and commenting on political news stories by average citizens who could be politically ignorant, with personal agendas and without any media knowledge.
Research has revealed that more Americans than ever are turning to the World Wide Web as their primary source for news and information instead of legacy media outlets such as printed newspapers and magazines and broadcast news. As more and more people rely on the Internet as a primary source for news, it is important to analyze the characteristics and content of online news to expose and correct problems associated with the practices that inform its production and presentation. There are several longstanding practices in the American journalistic tradition that have been adapted to the online news environment. The practices of market segmentation and gatekeeping are two such practices. To date, few studies have explored how internet news coverage differs when the same story is altered to address the perceived interests of specific target audiences. This goal of this study was to collect and examine the characteristics of news stories presented on the homepages of three news websites - the Huffington Post, Huffington Post Black Voices and News One - to arrive at conclusions about the similarities and differences in how news content is reported to a general audience and to an African-American audience. This exploratory study used both Web sphere analysis and qualitative analysis to examine the collected homepage news stories. It used the results of the analyses to explore the possible effects continued market segmentation and selective exposure online could have on discourse in the public sphere. The study found that the legacy media practice of market segmentation was evident when online news reporting on targeted and untargeted news website homepages was compared. The study also revealed that the traditional role of the Black Press in legacy media has been resurrected in new media and is evident on news websites produced by African-Americans, for an African-American audience. Additionally, a qualitative examination of online news coverage of President Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address and the death of Trayvon Martin revealed that the targeted audience influences the editorial slant through which news websites report stories.