Trust and Journalistic Transparency Online

Koliska, Michael

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2022.2102532

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“…Despite the strong scholarly interest in transparency and its proposed effects on trust and credibility, only few studies have investigated these effects empirically (Curry and Stroud, 2019; Karlsson et al, 2014; Koliska, 2015; Masullo et al, 2021; Meier and Reimer, 2011; Tandoc and Thomas, 2017). Moreover, these studies share several features that make an accumulation of evidence challenging: They (1) show strong conceptual differences regarding the main dependent variable, (2) investigate vastly differing transparency tools, (3) handle the challenges of designing media effects experiments contrastingly, and (4) have only started to systematically investigate the effects of moderating factors.…”

Section: Literature Review: Transparency In Journalismmentioning

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“…One central problem of media trust and credibility research is that the two terms are often used interchangeably (Engelke et al, 2019; Kohring and Matthes, 2007). Some transparency studies (Koliska, 2015; Meier and Reimer, 2011) employ instruments that measure trust in journalism and conceptualize credibility as a subset of trust (Kohring and Matthes, 2007). Other studies (Curry and Stroud, 2019; Karlsson et al, 2014; Masullo et al, 2021; Tandoc and Thomas, 2017) aim at measuring transparency’s effects on credibility.…”

Section: Literature Review: Transparency In Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only two (information about the motivation of a story and links) were related to the tools tested by Karlsson et al (2014). Meier and Reimer (2011) as well as Koliska (2015) took yet another approach and differentiated between producer and production transparency. The former was implemented by information about the author and contact information while the latter consisted of additional information about sources and documents articles were based on.…”

Section: Literature Review: Transparency In Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Empirical research about transparency’s effects on audience perceptions is scarce (Curry and Stroud, 2019; Karlsson et al, 2014; Koliska, 2015; Masullo et al, 2021; Meier and Reimer, 2011; Tandoc and Thomas, 2017). In this paper, we are interested in the effects of additional information about the author and information about the research that went into the article.…”

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The more, the better? Effects of transparency tools and moderators on the perceived credibility of news articles

2021

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Transparency is often discussed as a way to increase the public’s perception of journalism. While its adoption by newsrooms is relatively well studied, only a few studies have investigated its effects on news users’ credibility judgments. We build on research about transparency effects and report the results of two online experiments (total N = 2262), one with a local and one with a national newspaper frame. Our results suggest that transparency does not affect the perceived message and source credibility newspaper articles and that moderating factors such as cognitive involvement and media skepticism are more important predictors of credibility assessments.

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Section: Literature Review: Transparency In Journalismmentioning

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Section: Literature Review: Transparency In Journalismmentioning

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2021

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“…An interview set-up might be insufficient to uncover actual strategies and decision-making processes: quoting, like other routine work, is most likely conducted on auto-pilot, to alleviate the cognitive strain brought about by the hectic nature of news work. There is also the possibility that journalists will intentionally or sub-consciously dress up practices that breach guidelines or social norms (Koliska, 2015: section 8.3).…”

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Etic and emic data production methods in the study of journalistic work practices: A systematic literature review

Haapanen

Manninen

2021

Journalism

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This methodological paper discusses the application of etic and emic perspectives in producing data sets for the study of journalistic praxis. The concepts refer to the researcher-analyst’s and the practitioner-informant’s viewpoints, respectively, and that being the case, they have inherent weaknesses if used independently. We argue that these shortcomings can be mitigated through an integrated application of the concepts and by seeing the two perspectives as complementary to each other. Combining etic and emic perspectives will allow for a more comprehensive understanding of complex yet routinized real-life behaviour such as journalistic work. Following the appraisal of the etic-emic combination methodology, we present the results of a systematic literature review. We explore the application of this methodology in the study of journalistic work, as recounted in international journal articles published between 2000 and 2017. After keyword searches into several databases and a manual review of 3018 items, a corpus of 228 relevant articles was analysed. Our results demonstrate the studies’ disproportionate emphasis on the earliest phases of the journalistic process, that is, topic discovery, topic selection, point of view selection and sourcing, and the relative scarcity of studies applying a fully integrated etic-emic-combination methodology. We also report on, for example, the types of research material used and the media studied. We conclude with recommendations for expanding and diversifying the use of etic-emic-combination methodology in journalism studies to give us a more balanced understanding of the field.

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From Transparency to Transactive Memory System: How Do Newsrooms’ GitHub Pages Shape News Outlet Credibility?

Zhen

2023

Digital Journalism

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Amid the rise of computational and data-driven journalism, many newsrooms are using GitHub as a platform for collaborative work on news products. Despite the growing importance of GitHub in journalism, little is known about how a newsroom's information disclosure on GitHub shapes audiences' credibility judgment of the news outlet. Integrating theoretical insights from the transactive memory system and journalistic transparency, we conducted two online experiments in the United States. Study 1 (N=225) explored whether newsrooms' producer-and production-disclosure on GitHub impact news outlet credibility. The results show that production transparency could directly predict credibility whereas producer transparency could only indirectly boost credibility via perceived transparency. Study 2 (N=210) examined how the two key indicators of TMS operation: team expertise diversity and experience diversity affected news outlet credibility. It was revealed that team expertise diversity could indirectly enhance news outlet credibility via perceived team specialization; team experience diversity could indirectly foster news outlet credibility via perceived team coordination. We discussed the theoretical significance and practical implications for newsrooms on using GitHub as an emerging space to practice transparency and build trust with audiences.

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Trust and Journalistic Transparency Online

Cited by 13 publications

References 45 publications

The more, the better? Effects of transparency tools and moderators on the perceived credibility of news articles

The more, the better? Effects of transparency tools and moderators on the perceived credibility of news articles

Etic and emic data production methods in the study of journalistic work practices: A systematic literature review

From Transparency to Transactive Memory System: How Do Newsrooms’ GitHub Pages Shape News Outlet Credibility?

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