Sara Baker Netzley, Mark Hemmer
Abstract
College students did not differentiate between the credibility of a news article that they were told was written either by a professional journalist or an untrained citizen. Students who trust the mainstream media assigned higher credibility to the news articles.
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College students did not differentiate between the credibility of a news article that they were told was written either by a professional journalist or an untrained citizen. Students who trust the mainstream media assigned higher credibility to the news articles.
Key concepts: Credibility, Mainstream, Journalism, Newspaper, Public relations, Political science, News media, Technical Journalism