"You'd be Right to Indulge Some Skepticism": Trust-building Strategies in Future-oriented News Discourse.

ABSTRACT: This paper explores trust-building strategies in future-oriented news discourse, marked by a high degree of uncertainty. While current research mainly focuses on audiences' perceptions of news credibility, this study addresses news trust from a production standpoint. We examine the trust-building efforts of media actors, focusing on their discursive labor within the context of election projections. Drawing on rich data from five election rounds in Israel and the US, we qualitatively analyzed 400 news texts and 400 tweets that were produced by 20 US and 20 Israeli media actors. This textual analysis was supplemented by 10 in-depth interviews with Israeli journalists. Our findings demonstrate three types of journalistic trust-building rhetoric in election coverage: facticity, authority, and

SUBMITTER: Aharoni T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10478808 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature