Credibility of news on the World Wide Web

Credibility can get sticky on the Web

[Home]

[Advertorial]

[Speed of Internet news]

[Web-specific challenges]

[Old media vs. new media]

[Access]

[Quick fixes]

[Sources]

[Survey]

[Author]

© Copyright 2000
S. Camille Broadway.
All rights reserved.
Questions? Comments?
Contact me at:
scbroadway@mindspring. com

Sources

Ad overlap | Need for speed | Only on the Web | Old media vs. new | Access | Quick fixes | Survey

Introduction

American Civil Liberties Union, et. al. v. Janet Reno, 31 F. Supp. 2d 473 (1999).

Jonathan Katz, "Study finds Internet displacing traditional media sooner than expected," Free! The Freedom Forum Online, posted April 12,2000, accessed on April 14, 2000, at 5:58 p.m. http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/04/2000-04-12-11.asp

The Round Table Group's press release on their study of youth and the use of the Internet. http://www.round.table.com/releases/internetsurvey.html

Sonya Ross, "Clinton: Newspaper, Web Can Coexist," The Associated Press via The Washington Post online, posted on April 13, 2000, accessed on April 13, 2000, at 11:51 p.m. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000413/aponline162037_000.htm [Note: The Washington Post only keeps links active for a limited time. This link soon will not function.]

Back to the page you came from   [Top of page]

Advertising vs. editorial

Karissa S. Wong, "WCBS faces ethics firestorm over laser eye surgery ad, story," Electronic Media, posted April 10, 2000, accessed on April 10, 2000, at 10:33 p.m. http://www.emonline.com/today/main.html [Note: This link is to Electronic Media's home page. The content has changed since this story was posted on the site.]

Karim Mostafa, " 'Soft news' breaks ad/edit wall," Editor & Publisher Interactive, posted March 2, 2000, accessed on March 3, 2000, at 6:20 a.m. http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/030200n7.htm

Dirk Smillie, "Panelists say separating content, commerce a major Web issue," Free! The Freedom Forum Online, posted on March 2, 2000, accessed on April 7, 2000, at 2:20 p.m. http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/03/2000-03-02-13.asp

Barb Palser, "Charting New Terrain," American Journalism Review, Nov. 1999, accessed April 15, 2000, at noon http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrpals nov99.html

Back to the page you came from   [Top of page]

Faster or more accurate?

Alicia C. Shepard, "A Scandal Unfolds," American Journalism Review, March 1998, accessed on April 10, 2000, at 4:45 p.m. http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrshepard1.html

"Conference on Execellence in Journalism and the New Media: Panel 3: Credibility and the New Media," University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, April 1998, transcript of panel discussion, accessed on April 7, 2000, at 4:32 p.m. http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/events/newmediaconferencepanel3.html

"Speed of news sacrifices quality, Broder says," The Associated Press via Free! The Freedom Forum Online, posted on Feb. 14, 2000, accessed on April 14, 2000, at 6:15 p.m. http://www.freedomforum.org/professional/2000/2/14newsquality.asp

Michael Oreskes, "Navigating a Minefield," American Journalism Review, Nov. 1999, accessed on April 15, 2000, at 1:07 p.m. http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrores nov99.h tml

Back to the page you came from   [Top of page]

Unique to the Web

Fred Mann, " 'New Media' Brings a New Set of Problems," The Poynter Institute online, posted April 29, 1998, accessed on April 7, 2000, at 3:44 p.m. http://www.poynter.org/research/nm/nm_mann98.htm

Barb Palser, "Charting New Terrain," American Journalism Review, Nov. 1999, accessed April 15, 2000, at noon http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrpalsnov99.html

Cheryl Arvidson, "American public and the press, still a credibility gap," Free! The Freedom Forum Online, posted on April 12, 2000, accessed on April 12, 2000, at 9:32 p.m. http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/04/2000-04-12-12.asp

Back to the page you came from   [Top of page]

Old Media vs. New Media

Thomas J. Johnson and Barbara K. Kaye, "Cruising Is Believing?: Comparing Internet and Traditional Sources on Media Credibility Measures," Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly v.75 (Summer 1998): 325-340.

Spiro Kiousis, "Public Trust or Mistrust?: Perceptions of Media Credibility in the Information Age" (Paper submitted for Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference, 1999), accessed on Dec. 13, 1999, at 2 p.m. http://list.msu.edu/archives/aejmc.html [Note: This is not a direct link to the study, but a link to the online AEJMC archives]

Ekaterina Ognianova, "The Value of the Journalistic Identity on the World Wide Web," (Paper presented to the Mass Communication and Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, 1998), accessed on Dec. 13, 1999, at 2:30 p.m. http://list.msu.edu/archives/aejmc.html [Note: This is not a direct link to the study, but a link to the online AEJMC archives]

Back to the page you came from   [Top of page]

Access to information

Keith L. Alexander, "Respect eludes Net media," USA Today, posted March 27, 2000, accessed on March 27, 2000, at 9 p.m. http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000327/2075178s.htm [Note: USA Today only keeps links active for a limited time. This link soon will not function.]

"NCAA keeps Web reporters from Final Four," The Associated Press via Free! The Freedom Forum Online, posted March 15, 2000, accessed on April 14, 2000, at 6:12 p.m. http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/03/2000-03-15-15.asp

Back to the page you came from   [Top of page]

Quick fixes: Content, design and policies

Deb Riechmann, "Political Internet Sites Studied," The Associated Press via The Washington Post online, posted April 10, 2000, accessed April 14, 2000, at 6:03 p.m. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/apoline/20000410/aponline022014_000.htm [Note: The Washington Post only keeps links active for a limited time. This link soon will not function.]

"ePolitics: A Study of the 2000 Presidential Campaign on the Internet," Committee of Concerned Journalists, posted April 10, 2000, accessed on April 14, 2000, at 6:22 p.m. http://www.journalism.org/epolitics.html

S. Shyam Sundar, "Effect of Source Attribution on Perception of Online News Stories," Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly v.75 (Spring 1998): 55-68.

Fred Mann, " 'New Media' Brings a New Set of Problems," The Poynter Institute online, posted April 29, 1998, accessed on April 7, 2000, at 3:44 p.m. http://www.poynter.org/research/nm/nm_mann98.htm

Barb Palser, "Charting New Terrain," American Journalism Review, Nov. 1999, accessed April 15, 2000, at noon http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrpals nov99.html

Back to the page you came from   [Top of page]

Survey

The script for the form and the processing of the form is courtesy of response-o-matic.com.

Back to the page you came from   [Top of page]

Home | Advertorial | Ever Faster? | Web-specific | Old vs. New Media | Access | Quick Fixes | Sources | Survey | Author