BIP! Finder - Expert quotes and exaggeration in health news: a retrospective quantitative content analysis

2019 • Expert quotes and exaggeration in health news: a retrospective quantitative content analysis

Authors: Francien G. Bossema, Peter Burger, Luke Bratton, Aimée Challenger, Rachel C. Adams, Petroc Sumner, Joop Schat, Mattijs E. Numans, Ionica Smeets

Venue: Wellcome Open Research

Type: Article

Abstract: BackgroundThis research is an investigation into the role of expert quotes in health news, specifically whether news articles containing a quote from an independent expert are less often exaggerated than articles without such a quote.MethodsRetrospective quantitative content analysis of journal articles, press releases, and associated news articles was performed. The investigated sample are press releases on peer-reviewed health research and the associated research articles and news stories. Our sample consisted of 462 press releases and 668 ne... (read more)

Topics: Social science Psychoanalysis

DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15147.1

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