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Top Insights
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Media Use, Media Consumption
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
10
Trust Building: Role of Communication & Media
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COVID-19 Communication
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Audiences & Users
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Media Quality
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Health Disinformation & Misinformation
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Journalism
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Media & Information Literacy
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Politics and Media
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Access to Media & Information
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Disinformation Consumption & Perception
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Media Use: Foreign / International Media
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Media Use: Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups
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Media Use: Youth
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Online News
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Influencers (Social Media)
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Trust Building in Health & Emergency Communication
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Countering Hate Speech, Disinformation & Propaganda
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Accountability & Transparency of the Media
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Fact-Checking & Verification of Sources
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Journalistic Quality
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News
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Television News
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Election Reporting
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Democracy / Democratization and Media
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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Political Transition and Media
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Communication & Media Indicators
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Flow of Information
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Audience Feedback, Interaction & Participation
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Media Use: Conflict Areas
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Media Use: Political Information
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Media Use: Urban Populations
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News Avoidance
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Television Consumption, Televison Use, Television Audiences
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Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
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Election Campaigns
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Children's Television Programmes
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Communication Rights
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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War Propaganda, Propaganda in Conflicts
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Countering Misinformation & Rumours
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Rumours & Rumour Management
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Nonprofit Organizations, NGOs
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Media Assistance Projects & Programs: Case Studies
1
Digital Communication, Digital Media
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Big Digital Platforms, Big Tech Companies
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Google
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Social Media
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Facebook
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Bilibili (Chinese Anime, Comics, Platform)
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YouTube
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WhatsApp
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Diaspora Media
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Media Assistance: Disasters & Humanitarian Crises
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Media Literacy: Disinformation, Fake News, Hate Speech
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Media Concentration
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Media Viability & Financial Sustainability
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Nonprofit Journalism, Nonprofit Media
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Neoliberalism
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Civic Education: Use & Role of Media
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Sports
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Docusoaps & Scripted Reality Programmes
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Bias in News Media
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Press Councils
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Self-Regulation of Media
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Health Communication in Social Media, User-Generated Contents
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History of Radio
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Russia: Foreign Media Representation & Image Abroad
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Transnational Broadcasting, International Broadcasting
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Transnational Media Corporations, International Media Companies
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Constructive Journalism, Solution-Oriented Journalism
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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Radio Journalism
1
Media Assistance: Media & Information Literacy
1
Media Assistance: Self-Regulation, Accountability & Transparency of Media
1
Communication & Information Needs
1
COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
1
Information Ecosystems
1
Media Literacy: Youth
1
Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Post-Socialist Media Systems & Landscapes
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Financing Not-For-Profit & Community Media
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BBC
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Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA)
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Refugees / Displaced People
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People with Disabilities: Access to & Use of ICT and Media
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation
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Populism
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Right-Wing Extremism
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Political Parties
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Media / Communication
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Political Communication
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Opinion Leaders, Politicians, Decision Makers, Elites
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Political Parties: Communication Strategies
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Watchdog Role of the Media
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Public Service Broadcasting
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Public & State Radios
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Public & State Television
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Social Functions & Effects of the Media
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Taliban
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Research Methods
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Focus Groups & Group Discussions (Qualitative Research Method)
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Science Communication & Research Dissemination
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Civil Society
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Robots, Robotics
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Television
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Theories of Communication & Media
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Youth & Digital Media
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Youth: Media Representation & Reporting
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State of the Media Survey Report 2023
Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2023), xii, 54 pp.
"The Media survey indicates that Television remains the primary source of news, with 47% of respondents indicating it as their go-to platform for staying informed. Following closely is Radio, with 31% of respondents relying on it for news updates. The survey also revealed that Citizen Tv emerged as
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The Consequences of Evidence- Versus Non-Evidence-Based Understandings of the “Truth”: How Russian Speakers in Germany Negotiate Trust in Their Transnational News Environments
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 30, issue 1 (2025), pp. 326-345
"Extant research on migrants’ media use and trust has delivered mixed evidence on whether, and in which ways, migrants stay loyal to their homeland news media and/or develop trust in host-society media, particularly when the narratives of the two types of media clash. To advance this strand of res
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Stabiles Medienvertrauen auch in Zeiten politischer Umbrüche: Mainzer Langzeitstudie Medienvertrauen 2024
Media Perspektiven, issue 13 (2025), 20 pp.
"Das Medienvertrauen in Deutschland bleibt 2024 gegenüber dem Vorjahr weitgehend stabil und ist auch in einer langfristigen Perspektive recht robust. Das öffentlich-rechtliche Fernsehen ist nach wie vor die Mediengattung, der am meisten vertraut wird. Das Vertrauen in den öffentlich-rechtlichen
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2025 Edelman Trust Barometer. Global Report: Trust and the Crisis of Grievance
Edelman Trust Institute (2025), 77 pp.
Info-Monitor 2025
Berlin: Die Medienanstalten (2025), 80 pp.
"Der Info-Monitor der Medienanstalten dokumentiert, wo und wie sich die Bevölkerung in Deutschland zum aktuellen Zeitgeschehen informiert. Nutzung: Der Bedarf in der Bevölkerung an Informationen zum aktuellen Zeitgeschehen ist groß. Mehr als 90 Prozent interessieren sich für aktuelle Themen und
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The Influence of Media Trust and Normative Role Expectations on the Credibility of Fact Checkers
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 5 (2024), pp. 1137-1157
"Fact-checking has been granted a pivotal role in mitigating the effects of online disinformation, but its effectiveness has nonetheless been questioned. Like any persuasive communication, fact checkers depend on their recipients perceiving both their messages and them as credible. This study invest
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Trust in a Digital World: The Roles of Media Trust and Ordinary Citizen Cues in Online Disinformation’s Credibility
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 72, issue 3 (2024), pp. 297-312
"The perception of disinformation as societal risk has reached a troubling peak amid the COVID-19 pandemic, strategically targeting vulnerable audiences through digital media by mirroring characteristics of vox populi disinformation. This study investigates the conditions under which COVID-19-relate
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Bundles of trust? Examining the relationships between media repertoires, institutional trust, and social contexts
Coomunications, volume 49, issue 2 (2024), pp. 243-262
"How the media influence the trust that citizens have in institutions such as politics and science seems more important than ever, given the decline of institutional trust in Western societies, and the increasingly diversified media landscape. This paper focuses on the relationship between media rep
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The Watchdog Press in the Doghouse: A Comparative Study of Attitudes about Accountability Journalism, Trust in News, and News Avoidance
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 2 (2024), pp. 485-506
"The watchdog role has been one of the most widely discussed normative functions of the press. In this study, we examine the public’s attitudes toward the news media’s watchdog performance and how they correlate with trust in news and news avoidance, two important phenomena for democracy and the
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Have people ‘had enough of experts’? The impact of populism and pandemic misinformation on institutional trust in comparative perspective
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.
"Public trust in institutions is a key prerequisite for effective crisis management. However, the rise of populism and misinformation in recent years made it increasingly difficult to maintain institutional trust. Despite this recognition, we still lack a systematic understanding of how exposure to
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The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp, 2859-2881
"This study explores the construction of distributed trust under today’s networked environment. Focusing on diaspora micro-influencers’ COVID-19-related videos on Bilibili, this study aims to explore: How platform-specific features of Bilibili enhance the construction of distributed trust; the d
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Expectations of News Media in Uganda: Advancing a Theory of Relative Institutional Trust in Journalism
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1873–1892
"Compared with work on trust in news, surprisingly little research examines audiences’ expectations of journalism. Audiences’ expectations, after all, elucidate public opinion of news, including the criteria by which news and journalists may be trusted. Journalism expectancy research is particul
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2024 Edelman Trust Barometer: Global Report
Edelman (2024), 88 slides
"The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a new paradox at the heart of society. Rapid innovation offers the promise of a new era of prosperity, but instead risks exacerbating trust issues, leading to further societal instability and political polarization. In a year where half the global population
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The Future of Trustworthy Information: Learning from Online Content Creators
Shorenstein Center (2024), 22 pp.
"What emerges most clearly from this comparison of journalists and creators is that journalism has placed many markers of trust in institutional processes that are opaque to audiences, while creators try to embed the markers of trust directly in their interactions with audiences." (Conclusion)
Trust and the Media: Arguments for the (irr)elevance of a Concept
Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 4 (2023), pp. 479-495
"This article provides a discussion of some of the recent research on media trust focusing on arguments for why media trust matters. What are the arguments for why trust is important? Are there reasons to accept these arguments? We identify three distinct arguments in the literature. First, that it
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News for the Powerful and Privileged: How Misrepresentation and Underrepresentation of Disadvantaged Communities Undermine Their Trust in News
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 58 pp.
Strategies for Building Trust in News: What the Public Say They Want Across Four Countries
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 76 pp.
The Trust Framework
Internews (2023), 2 pp.
"The Internews Trust Framework offers a perspective to gauge the presence of trust and, importantly, to understand why certain sources of information might be more, or lesstrusted. This framework consists of four key elements of trust, each comprising threecomponents. This enables us to analyze, mon
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Inequity Driven Mistrust: Its Impacts to Infodemic Management and Health Response and What to Do About It
Internews;USAID (2023), 45 pp.
Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility
Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 6 (2023), pp. 803-823
"In the battle against misinformation, do negative spillover effects of communicative efforts intended to protect audiences from inaccurate information exist? Given the relatively limited prevalence of misinformation in people’s news diets, this study explores if the heightened salience of misinfo
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