This study examined public trust in the media through focus groups with young, educated urbanites in Rwanda. Despite the fact media in Rwanda incited violence during the 1994 genocide, results revealed that the Rwandan public highly trust their local news, especially state-run media. The findings suggest frameworks for studying media trust should consider the public’s trust in government, as the two might be linked, and also suggest scholars think deeply about conceptualizations of trust in different socio-political contexts, as trust is part of the culture of a polity, not simply a citizen’s judgment on how well news media are doing.
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McIntyre, K., & Sobel Cohen, M. (2021). Public Trust in State-Run News Media in Rwanda. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(3), 808–827. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699021998647
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