If Only They Knew: Audience Expectations and Actual Sourcing Practices in Online Journalism

Manninen, Ville

doi:10.1080/17512786.2019.1625719

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“…Overall, the influence of transparency strategies on trustworthiness should, as underlined by experimental studies (e.g. Kruikemeier & Lecheler, 2018) and surveys (Manninen, 2020), therefore be questioned. This is in line with other studies showing little or no effects of such strategies to increase trustworthiness on the audience's existing attitudes regarding news media (Curry & Stroud, 2019;Karlsson, Clerwall, & Nord, 2017;Karlsson et al, 2018).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Can transparency preserve journalism’s trustworthiness? Recipients’ views on transparency about source origin and verification regarding user-generated content in the news

Wintterlin¹,

Engelke²,

Hase³

2020

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In a digital world, journalists increasingly integrate user-generated content (UGC) in their coverage. Journalists use coping strategies to dispel the audience’s supposed concerns about the reliability of this new type of sources and to maintain the audience’s confidence in such coverage. Transparency, in particular, is often considered as a means to preserve journalism from accusations of being biased and untrustworthy. We focus on the audience’s perception and evaluation of two transparency strategies: transparency about the origin of UGC and transparency about verification attempts. Based on semi-structured interviews with German users (N = 26), this study analyzes recipients’ perceptions of transparency strategies journalists use when integrating UGC. Most of the respondents rarely perceive transparency about source origin or verification in their everyday media use. Even when noticed, transparency efforts barely seem to increase journalistic trustworthiness.

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confidence: 99%

Can transparency preserve journalism’s trustworthiness? Recipients’ views on transparency about source origin and verification regarding user-generated content in the news

Wintterlin¹,

Engelke²,

Hase³

2020

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“…Further studies confirm that young audiences are aware of and appreciate news that meets established quality standards. A study from Finland shows that young adults wish for even more investigation, verification of journalistic content, and credible sources (Manninen 2019). Drok and Hermans (2015) confirmed these findings for the Netherlands and highlighted the importance of location- and time-independent availability.…”

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Change in News Access, Change in Expectations? How Young Social Media Users in Switzerland Evaluate the Functions and Quality of News

Schwaiger

Vogler

Eisenegger

2022

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Online media environments have changed the way young people access news. Despite much research on the topic, the expectations of journalistic news by young adults who have turned their back on traditional news media remain unclear. We use a novel multimethod qualitative online study design to investigate the perceived quality, functions, and expectations toward journalistic news of young adults in Switzerland who use social media as their main source for news and rarely consume traditional media. Nineteen young adults between 20 and 25 years of age with different educational levels participated in our study in May 2020. Our results show that even though the participants only occasionally use traditional news media channels, they still consider journalistic news relevant and appreciate quality standards of professional journalism such as actuality and veracity (Swart 2021b). Among the functions of news, the participants highlighted sociability and identification. Exchange and discussion of news are, thus, of high relevance online but also offline. Also, the participants show a high affinity toward news on mobilizing topics, which are of interest to themselves and their peers, and motivate them to engage with news more intensely. According to the participants, news should be attractively prepared, such as with audiovisual formats and easy to understand and integrate into everyday life. The participants also expressed a preference to consume news articles from different media brands within a single platform. Our study outlines a fruitful path for comprehensive qualitative research with innovative online tools.

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“…Further it has been concluded that young consumers are educated and enjoy news that fulfills certain quality requirements. According to a Finnish research, young individuals want greater inquiry, confirmation of media content, and trustworthy sources ( Manninen, 2020 ). Since younger folks value news in their daily lives, but do not always absorb it actively, making them “a population that is of tremendous interest to news producers throughout the world, and one which they are finding more difficult to reach” ( Schwaiger et al, 2022 ).…”

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Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

Zhang¹,

Akhter

Nassani

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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In this global village, easy access to news has resulted in many changes in the preferences and patterns of people for accessing news. Therefore, the present study has attempted to investigate the effects of news relevance, perceived quality, and news overloading on people’s news curation preferences. This study has also examined the mediating role of news avoidance between the news relevance, perceived quality, and news overloading on the news curation. A quantitative technique has been employed to check the relationships proposed in the study. A sample size of 217 has been analyzed to check these hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that news relevance has a negative impact while news overload positively and significantly impact the news curation. However, the news avoidance only mediated the relationship of news quality and news curation. Theoretically, the study has contributed to the literature of journalism and social media by finding that relevance of news has a negative significant impact on the news curation behavior of people, such that if they do not find the news relevant, they happily curate it. Practically, the study implies that the people are more prone to the quality of news rather than quantity; therefore, it is important for the news agencies to ensure that they produce and deliver the quality based news considering the accuracy to penetrate the Theoretic lass level.

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If Only They Knew: Audience Expectations and Actual Sourcing Practices in Online Journalism

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

Can transparency preserve journalism’s trustworthiness? Recipients’ views on transparency about source origin and verification regarding user-generated content in the news

Can transparency preserve journalism’s trustworthiness? Recipients’ views on transparency about source origin and verification regarding user-generated content in the news

Change in News Access, Change in Expectations? How Young Social Media Users in Switzerland Evaluate the Functions and Quality of News

Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

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