For online news portals, credibility counts

PENN STATE (US) — The readers’ evaluation of online news portals like Google News depends on credible content, according to new research.When readers access a story from a credible news source they trust through an online portal, they also tend to trust the portal, says S. Shyam Sundar, professor of communications and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at Penn State. Most of these portals use computers, not people, to automatically sort and post stories....

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Source: Futurity.org - Thursday, 2 February

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