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Why people (do not) trust the news, what they understand "trust" to mean/be & where it comes from are big questions. I tried to write about them for the @nzz.
The
is in German, but I've gathered my key sources & studies in the 
below. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/vertrauen-in-medien-eine-suche-nach-antworten-ld.1567780
The
is in German, but I've gathered my key sources & studies in the below. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/vertrauen-in-medien-eine-suche-nach-antworten-ld.1567780
1) This article by @Csquaredfisher is a great overview of the evolution of trust in news and why it is a surprisingly complicated concept & hard to measure. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2016.1261251
2) This study by Schranz et. al provides a good discussion on the link between media use and trust in news (although it doesn't quite answer which comes before which IMO). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-658-20765-6_5
3) An excellent resource which I quoted at length is @hugoreasoningâs âNot Born Yesterdayâ out with @PrincetonUPress which shed's light on how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe from a cognitive science perspective. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691178707/not-born-yesterday
4) Some of the data I relied on:
The @risj_oxfordâs great Digital News Report with data for a growing number of countries worldwide: http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/
The @risj_oxfordâs great Digital News Report with data for a growing number of countries worldwide: http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/
5) The "Langzeitstudie Medienvertrauen" by @js_mainz & @Tanjev and team with data for Germany.
https://medienvertrauen.uni-mainz.de/
https://medienvertrauen.uni-mainz.de/
6) As well as research by Pew, Gallup, Ipsos Mori & others:
- https://news.gallup.com/poll/267047/americans-trust-mass-media-edges-down.aspx
- https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/publication/documents/2019-09/ipsos-thinks-trust-the-truth.pdf
- https://knightfoundation.org/reports/indicators-of-news-media-trust/
- https://news.gallup.com/poll/267047/americans-trust-mass-media-edges-down.aspx
- https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/publication/documents/2019-09/ipsos-thinks-trust-the-truth.pdf
- https://knightfoundation.org/reports/indicators-of-news-media-trust/
7) I also quote from @dragz essay supplement for the Digital News Report on the question of how trust in the news could be increased: http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/publications/2020/trust-will-get-worse-gets-better/#footnote-21019-29
8) Similarly, @AlexaBorchardtâs new book "Mehr Wahrheit wagen" (with @Dudenverlag) was a great resource on what news outlets can do to increase trust in their work. https://books.google.de/books?id=VX_VDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
9) Helpful to understand trust in (the) news during the COVID-19 pandemic was this report by @dragz, @rasmus_kleis, @nicnewman, @jsbrennen, & @pnhoward. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/infodemic-how-people-six-countries-access-and-rate-news-and-information-about-coronavirus
10) and last, this study by @THanitzsch et al. in IJPP which finds that "the widely noted decline in media trust is not a universal trend" & is well worth your time. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161217740695
There's much more I could have mentioned here but these are some of the key sources (sadly not linked to in the piece) for those of you interested in exploring the topic in greater detail. Happy Wednesday!
