1st Edition
Mainstream News Media Trust Antecedents, Consequences, and Remedies
List of Contributors
Part I: Conceptual and normative perspectives
Chapter 1. Introduction: Re-thinking media trust in digital media environments
Nayla Fawzi, Jesper Strömbäck, and Yariv Tsfati
Chapter 2. A paradox or not? As Media Quality Rose, Trust in Media Declined
Michael Schudson
Chapter 3. Investigating media trust: methodological challenges and approaches
Yariv Tsfati and Caroline Fisher
Part II: Comparative perspectives
Chapter 4. What has happened to trust in news in the long run globally?
Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Chapter 5. Explaining levels of media trust across countries through macro-level factors
Thomas Hanitzsch, Magdalena Obermaier, Carsten Reinemann, and Nina Steindl
Part III: Antecedents and consequences of media trust
Chapter 6. Political antecedents and consequences of media trust
Nina Steindl and Magdalena Obermaier
Chapter 7. The role of media trust in media use and effects
Rens Vliegenthart
Part IV: Current challenges
Chapter 8. The age of misinformation: How institutional trust and false stories shape public opinion
Katherine Ognyanova
Chapter 9. News media trust facing new competitors
Yifei Wang and Miriam Metzger
Chapter 10. Truthful news reporting and media trust: a complex relationship
Jesper Strömbäck
Chapter 11. Building media trust from an editorial perspective
Jacob L. Nelson
Chapter 12. Delegitimizing the media to undermine public media trust
Jana Laura Egelhofer and Sophie Lecheler
Chapter 13. Conclusion: Toward a framework for future research on news media trust
Yariv Tsfati, Nayla Fawzi, and Jesper Strömbäck
Index
Biography
Nayla Fawzi is a Professor of Democracy and Digital Communication at the Department of Communication at University of Mainz, Germany. She leads the research group “Trust from a Media, Politics and Public Perspective.” Her research focuses on political communication, in particular, the chances and challenges of the current media environment for citizens, journalism, and democracy.
Jesper Strömbäck is Professor in Journalism and Political Communication at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Broadly, his research focuses on political journalism, media use, and media effects on people’s attitudes and beliefs. Among his most recent book is the co-edited “Knowledge resistance in high-choice information environments” (2022).
Yariv Tsfati is Professor at the Department of Communication, The Herta and Paul Amir Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel. His research focuses on various facets of public opinion, in particular on trust in media, the third person effect, and campaign effects.
