Bibliographies of Readings in Journalism Trust and Quality Building

The Media Credibility Bibliography is excellent and comprehensive. It’s compiled and regularly updated by David Shedden, the Poynter Institute’s library director.

News Quality and Credibility: Their Relation to Profit and Circulation Bibliography Compiled by Esther Thorson, University of Missouri School of Journalism, is a more static PDF file with the latest citation dated 2001.

Readings On Web Credibility compiled by David Danielson while a doctoral student at Stanford University for a chapter on Web Credibility for the Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction in 2005.

“The State of the News Media 2004” source bibliography and “The State of the News Media 2005” source bibliography are extensive and helped the authors at the Project for Excellence in Journalism write their detailed and influential reports.