Trust in News Media

By Matthias Kohring, Jörg Matthes. Communication Research, 2007

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Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media (2020, background): “Users are unlikely to react uniformly to fact-check alerts for news sources that have different levels of perceived familiarity as well as reputation and expertise in news production (Kohring & Matthes, 2007).”
When Do Audiences Verify? How Perceptions About Message and Source Influence Audience Verification of News Headlines (2020, background): “There is a risk in trusting that a news account is accurate and factual (Kohring & Matthes, 2007), and audiences could be more motivated to verify when their initial evaluation of a piece of news is true.”
Correlations Among Variables in Message and Messenger Credibility Scales (2010, background): “…participants were asked about how they perceived news media coverage of specific topics by “answer in regard to their main source of journalistic information (Kohring & Matthes, 2007, p. 242) and not about the perceived credibility of a specific news story published by a specific messenger.”