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Online news meets established journalism: how China’s journalists evaluate the credibility of news websites

Joseph M. Chan

Fudan University, PRC and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR

Francis L.F. Lee

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR

Zhongdang Pan

University of Wisconsin, USA

The internet presents challenges to traditional journalism by being a platform for alternative practices of news production and dissemination. In response, traditional journalists are expected to engage in ‘news repair’ in order to reconfirm the authority of existing news institutions and the legitimacy of traditional models of journalism. This interaction between new media and journalistic practices must be contextualized within a media system. Built upon these premises, this study analyzes data from probability sample surveys of journalists in two Chinese cities. It finds that journalists regard mainstream media organizations’ websites as more credible than those run by commercial portals. The perceived credibility of these two types of news websites varies with journalists’ beliefs about journalism. While party journalism remains a dominant lens through which Chinese journalists evaluate the two types of websites, the sites of commercial portals are viewed by some to be embodying an alternative model of journalism.

Key Words: Chinese media • media credibility • models of journalism • news repair • online journalism

New Media & Society, Vol. 8, No. 6, 925-947 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1461444806069649
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