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- Title
Understanding Innovations in Journalistic Practice: A Field Experiment Examining Motivations for Fact-Checking.
- Authors
Graves, Lucas; Nyhan, Brendan; Reifler, Jason
- Abstract
Why has fact-checking spread so quickly within U.S. political journalism? In the first field experiment conducted among reporters, we varied journalist exposure to messages that highlight either audience demand for fact-checking or the prestige it enjoys within the profession. Our results indicate that messages promoting the high status and journalistic values of fact-checking increased the prevalence of fact-checking coverage, while messages about audience demand were somewhat less successful. These findings suggest that political fact-checking is driven primarily by professional motives within journalism, a finding that helps us understand the process by which the practice spreads within the press as well as the factors that influence the behavior of journalists.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JOURNALISM &; politics; AMERICAN journalism; ACCURACY in journalism; PROFESSIONALISM; UNITED States politics &; government
- Publication
Journal of Communication, 2016, Vol 66, Issue 1, p102
- ISSN
0021-9916
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jcom.12198