Influence of Story Structure on Perceived Story Bias and News Organization Credibility

The Hyperlinked World: A Look at How the Interactions of News Frames and Hyperlinks Influence News Credibility and Willingness to Seek Information

“…The concept of media credibility is a multidimensional construct that has been studied from three different areas of research—source credibility (associated with the credibility of the message originator), message credibility (concerned with the characteristics of the message), and medium credibility (dealing with the channel through which the message is delivered) (Kiousis, ; Metzger, Flanagin, Eyal, Lemus, & McCann, ). Hence, media credibility is typically considered a multidimensional concept drawing from several different aspects of coverage, such as trustworthiness and expertise, fairness, balance, incompleteness, concern for community, separation of opinion and fact, bias, and accuracy (Meyer, ; Fico et al, ; Flanagin & Metzger, ; Gaziano & McGrath, ; Greer, ; Johnson & Kaye, 1998).…”

“…This study is concerned with the message credibility and employs Meyer's () news credibility scale, which uses five dimensions: fairness, completeness, bias, accuracy, and trustworthiness. Meyer's scale has been used in many different studies and thus has been validated across a wide variety of sources (Fico et al, ; Greer, ). To Meyer's scale, a sixth dimension was added to address the perceptions of balance in the news (Fico et al, ).…”

“…Meyer's scale has been used in many different studies and thus has been validated across a wide variety of sources (Fico et al, ; Greer, ). To Meyer's scale, a sixth dimension was added to address the perceptions of balance in the news (Fico et al, ). In the online world, Johnson and Wiedenback () found that hyperlinks in a news story increased the perceived news credibility.…”

In God We Trust: Religiosity as a Predictor of Perceptions of Media Trust, Factuality, and Privacy Invasion

“…For example, Chartprasert (1993) found media credibility to be dependent on whether the writing style of a news article was simple or complex. Fico, Richardson, and Edwards (2004) argued that a story that presented only one side of an event or issue led to perceived story bias. This bias was believed to have created a negative evaluation of the credibility of the newspaper.…”

Special interests and the media: Theory and an application to climate change

“…Journalists often report claims they cannot verify directly, and quoting someone critical (or likely to be critical) of a given claim provides a routine way to avoid appearing to endorse the original claim (Tuchman 1972). 9 Consistent with this interpretation, laboratory evidence shows that readers regard a news organization as more credible when the organization’s article reports both sides of a controversy (Fico et al 2004). …”