APME: Readers, editors trust newspaper Web sites
By Leah McBride Mensching, Thursday 10 April 2008 at 20:18 :: Online/Digital Publishing :: #1522 :: rss
Readers and editors both trust what they read on newspaper Web sites, but readers are generally not as troubled by anonymous reader comments at the end of online articles as editors are, according to an Associated Press Managing Editors poll released this week, the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel in Maine reported Thursday.
More than 1,200 U.S. editors and 500 online news readers were surveyed.
Those surveyed were asked on a scale of one to seven, how trustworthy they thought news on newspaper Web sites is. Editors gave an aggregate rating of 6.61, while readers gave a 5.60, according to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
When asked whether they think it's a good or bad idea when a newspaper Web site does not require names when users post comments at the end of articles, 64 percent of editors thought it was a bad idea, while 40 percent thought so. Twenty percent of editors thought anonymity was a good idea, while 40 percent of readers thought so.
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