Unnamed News Sources: Their Impact on the Perceptions of Stories

Hale, F. Dennis

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“…Other studies have found that source attribution is less important to readers than the type of news stories when it comes to perceptions of credibility. Hale (1984) determined that, in factual news stories, the level of anonymity did not have an impact on the perceptions of credibility. Whether the story had no attribution at all, had general attribution, or had specific attribution, did not make a substantial difference in readers' perceptions of credibility of factual news stories.…”

Section: Anonymous Sources and News Credibilitymentioning

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“…In contrast, the information in the second story was attributed to named sources such as 'our correspondent from Cairo, John Hendawi,' 'businessman Said Abdel-Motalib,' or 'the Interior Ministry.' Factual news stories were chosen in order to make the experiment more conservative as research has shown that the readers would be less likely to make distinctions in credibility assessments when anonymous sources are used in factual news stories than in investigative news stories (Fedler and Counts, 1981;Hale, 1984). Possible motivation bias was addressed by choosing topics outside of participants' countries.…”

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Anonymous sources hurt credibility of news stories across cultures: A comparative experiment in America and China

Pjesivac

Rui

2014

International Communication Gazette

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This cross-cultural experiment ( N = 620) tested the impact of the use of anonymous sources on perceived news story credibility in America and China, two countries with assumed different journalistic standards. Both Americans and Chinese rated news stories with only anonymous sources as less credible than stories with identified sources. The attitude of Americans towards news stories was found to be more positive. The study represents the first comparative research on the topic with rigorously established cross-cultural equivalences.

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Section: Anonymous Sources and News Credibilitymentioning

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Anonymous sources hurt credibility of news stories across cultures: A comparative experiment in America and China

Pjesivac

Rui

2014

International Communication Gazette

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“…However, Hale (1984) experimented with assessing how the users feel about the presence or absence of attribution in the news stories and whether they impact their evaluation? He divided the attribution into three categories: No attribution, general attribution, and specific attribution.…”

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Elite Official Sources and the Coverage of the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Dawn and The News

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Marwan

Anwar

2022

GSR

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This research study investigates the coverage of Dawn and The News during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic to understand whom they relied on most to share the story of the COVID-19 pandemic with their readers. Sources cited or quoted in the news stories play a significant role in emphasizing the particular aspect of the coverage. The researchers studied the selected newspapers' news coverage for one month, from March 13, 2020, to April 13, 2020. The findings, based on the content analysis, reveal that both the selected mainstream newspapers relied more on the elite official sources to share the story of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic – by sidelining the general public, health experts and victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the newspapers failed to reflect on the issue through people's, victims’, and health experts' voices. Thus, they faced failure to observe the diversity and investigative line in coverage.

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“…The literature on evidentiality with an emphasis on political discourse in the news is not ample either (Garretson & Ädel 2008, Hsieh 2008, Thomson et al 2008, Reyes 2011. Nonetheless, some of the existing studies mainly focus on external sources (Thompson 1996, Denham 1997, Pak 2010, Lee 2017, their impact (Sundar 1998, Mahone 2014, Duncan et al 2019, or specifically unnamed sources (Hale 1984, Stenvall 2008, Schubert 2015. To the best of our knowledge, the only study that employed a somewhat similar approach to our study in order to analyze source segments was Calsamiglia and Ferrero's (2003) research on the role and position of scientific voices through reported speech in media.…”

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“Where got I that truth?” An analysis of external sources in English and Persian news reports on Syria

Rezaee

Mozaffari

2023

D&I

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While there has been a plethora of inquiries into reported speech, a cross-linguistic analysis of the source segments in political news reports is still a rarity. This study aims at a three-fold investigation: first, tracking the frequency, transparency, and types of the sources; second, identifying the strategies employed to introduce these sources in text, and third, interrogating the contextual elements. To this end, a bottom-up analysis of 120 news reports from four quality newspapers (Kayhan and Jomhouri-e Eslami from Iran and The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal from the U.S.), mainly informed by van Leeuwen’s (1996) model of social actors, was carried out. The findings suggest a heavy reliance of both sets of newspapers on external sources to fulfill their vested interests, although they varied significantly with respect to frequency, transparency, and type.

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Unnamed News Sources: Their Impact on the Perceptions of Stories

Cited by 8 publications

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Anonymous sources hurt credibility of news stories across cultures: A comparative experiment in America and China

Anonymous sources hurt credibility of news stories across cultures: A comparative experiment in America and China

Elite Official Sources and the Coverage of the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Dawn and The News

“Where got I that truth?” An analysis of external sources in English and Persian news reports on Syria

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