“…The hybridisation (Chadwick, 2013), porosity (Carlson & Lewis, 2015), and technological saturation (Harambam et al., 2018) of the contemporary media environment are arguably the greatest challenges ever for news media and news media trust because “like never before, news media today face competition for people's attention from a myriad of other sources of information” (Strömbäck et al., 2020, p. 140). Some of those sources, especially those that embrace a populist stance, 1 try also to systematically delegitimize journalism (see Carlson, Lewis, & Robinson, 2021). Indeed, public attacks on the news media have become a dominant feature of the current wave of populist politicians, parties, and movements (e.g., Egelhofer & Lecheler, 2019; Panievsky, 2021; Van Dalen, 2021).…”