Online news meets established journalism: How China's journalists evaluate the credibility of news websites

New Media and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 925-947

  Chan, Joseph M ^a,b   Lee, Francis L F ^c   Pan, Zhongdang ^d,e  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese media; Media credibility; Models of journalism; News repair; Online journalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750732966     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444806069649     Document Type: Article

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