This article compares how millennial generation members perceive the credibility of the news they consume from television (TV) channels, radio stations, newspapers, websites, and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. American and Korean college students prefer to access the news through mobile devices and computers. But unlike Americans, young Koreans think that journalism is most credible when it comes from a TV or a newspaper. Additionally, this study found that owning and using a smartphone, a different mobile device, or a computer to access news did not automatically make those platforms a young adult’s favorite ways to consume journalism.
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