Don’t Quote me

Effects of Named, Quoted, and Partisan News Sources

Bibliographic Data

ID12909446
AuthorsMegan Duncan (0000-0002-0547-2387, Virginia Tech), Kathleen Bartzen Culver (0000-0003-1651-3452, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author), Douglas M Mcleod (0000-0001-5808-2457, University of Wisconsin–Madison), Christopher Kremmer (0000-0002-1729-4354, UNSW Sydney)
Year2019
Volume13
Issue9
Pages1128-1146
Publication date2019-03-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2019.1588148
OpenAlexW2920889651
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited28

Many news organizations have developed policies on the use of named and unnamed sources, including whether the latter can be directly quoted or paraphrased in news stories. In this experiment, we test how audience members respond to these policy dictates by measuring news credibility in a political story that manipulated whether the source was named, whether that source was directly quoted, and the source’s political connection to the story. We found that while each of these manipulations had little or no main effects, they combined to trigger a discernible change in credibility in the eyes of the audience

Advertising · Business · Credibility · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Source credibility · Test (biology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Social Media and Politics

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