TY - JOUR
T1 - Anonymous sources harm credibility of all stories
AU - Sternadori, Miglena Mantcheva
AU - Thorson, Esther
N1 - Funding Information:
Sternadori is an assistant professor in the Department of Contemporary Media and Journalism at the University of South Dakota. Thorson is a professor and acting dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. They thank Dan Sullivan of the University of Minnesota for his thoughtful feedback and suggestions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2009 Newspaper and Online News Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
PY - 2009/9/1
Y1 - 2009/9/1
N2 - Findings confirm the use of anonymous sources has a negative effect on readers’ perceptions of story credibility. Stories of presumably higher quality elicited more believability toward sources who disagree with the main findings of the story.
AB - Findings confirm the use of anonymous sources has a negative effect on readers’ perceptions of story credibility. Stories of presumably higher quality elicited more believability toward sources who disagree with the main findings of the story.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015737586&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/073953290903000405
DO - 10.1177/073953290903000405
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85015737586
VL - 30
SP - 54
EP - 66
JO - Newspaper Research Journal
JF - Newspaper Research Journal
SN - 0739-5329
IS - 4
ER -