What news outlets do people have in mind when they answer survey questions about trust in “media”?

Autor(en)

Yariv Tsfati, Elina Lindgren, Jesper Strömbäck, Rens Vliegenthart, Hajo Boomgaarden

Abstrakt

While ample research on audience trust in the news media uses survey questions that ask respondents about their trust in a generic “news media,” only scant research has investigated what types of news outlets respondents have in mind when answering such questions. These previous investigations originated mostly in the US and resulted in inconsistent findings. To further investigate this question, we use data from a large-scale survey (N = 2,337), collected in Sweden, including both general media trust measures and specific measures about trust in 20 mainstream and nonmainstream news outlets. The results demonstrate that our respondents seemingly averaged across all mainstream sources when they formed their general evaluations of the news media’s trustworthiness.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Haifa, University of Gothenburg, University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Journal

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

Band

35

ISSN

0954-2892

DOI

https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edad008

Publikationsdatum

04-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Sociology and Political Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/what-news-outlets-do-people-have-in-mind-when-they-answer-survey-questions-about-trust-in-media(5daf7964-26ac-4084-974f-301b4d1f72cb).html