A CONSTRUCTIVIST STUDY OF TRUST IN THE NEWS

Abstract

How the news is produced, circulated and consumed weighs heavily on the form and force of citizenship. And yet much of the existing literature tends to reduce the tricky issue of trust to the appreciably more straightforward issue of accuracy. The research reported here asked the public what they expected from the news and journalists expected of the public. The findings suggest that trust in the news is more complex and nuanced than mere questions of journalistic veracity.