Bringing together some of the foremost scholars in the field, this book offers a critical introduction to mainstream news media (dis)trust and its social and political conditions and consequences.
Drawing on qualitative and quantitative approaches, the chapters in Mainstream News Media Trust summarize what we know about news media trust today and set out a research agenda to advance our understanding of the topic in the future. The chapters address issues such as trends in news media trust, what factors shape and moderate news media trust, how much news media trust a society needs, how truthful news reporting and trust are related, how institutional trust and false stories shape public opinion, and contemporary challenges to news media trust. In addition, they consider what measures different news media have taken to increase audience trust and engagement.
This book adopts a comparative global outlook to provide a well-rounded state of the field art. Mainstream News Media Trust is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in Journalism, Digital Media, and related disciplines.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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