In Media We Trust: Journalists and institutional trust perceptions in post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries

Alice N. Tejkalová; Arnold S. de Beer; Rosa Berganza; Yusuf Kalyango; Adriana Amado; Liga Ozolina; Filip Láb; Rawshon Akhter; Sonia Virginia Moreira; Masduki

doi:10.1080/1461670X.2017.1279026

In Media We Trust: Journalists and institutional trust perceptions in post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries

Alice N. Tejkalová (Corresponding Author), Arnold S. de Beer, Rosa Berganza, Yusuf Kalyango, Adriana Amado, Liga Ozolina, Filip Láb, Rawshon Akhter, Sonia Virginia Moreira, Masduki

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Abstract

Trust is a societal value that is difficult to gain and easy to lose. This article deals with the levels of trust that journalists working in eight post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries (Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latvia, South Africa and Tanzania) have in various social institutions using data from the present Worlds of Journalism Study. In each country, results showed the level of trust in journalists’ own institution—the media—is higher than the level of trust in both political and regulative institutions. The expression of low trust, particularly in regulative institutions, in the sampled countries represents significantly different results from previous studies about journalists’ trust in countries with longer democratic traditions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	629-644
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journalism Studies
Volume	18
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1279026
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2017
Externally published	Yes

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journalism
journalists
post-authoritarian country
post-totalitarian country
social institution
trust
Worlds of Journalism Study

Field of Science*

5.8 Media and Communication

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