New research suggests people in the U.S. are, overall, good at identifying true political news headlines from fake ones — but there are some stark socioeconomic differences.
If you had to come up with a single move designed to deal a blow to whatever traffic is left and make sharing news more of a hassle, you couldn’t do much better than eliminating headlines from posts.
“The disconnect many young people feel may come from a lack of representation, which we show violates a fundamental aspect of how audiences — teens and adults — define what is news.”
Owen, Laura Hazard. "In The New York Times, A Story on Eels Achieves Headline Perfection." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 22 Jun. 2021. Web. 24 Apr. 2024.
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Owen, L. (2021, Jun. 22). In The New York Times, A Story on Eels Achieves Headline Perfection. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/06/in-the-new-york-times-a-story-on-eels-achieves-headline-perfection/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "In The New York Times, A Story on Eels Achieves Headline Perfection." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 22, 2021. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/06/in-the-new-york-times-a-story-on-eels-achieves-headline-perfection/.
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