How Using Quoted Information from Facebook Affects the Credibility of a News Story

This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working at Men's Health magazine. Field notes and samples of work are included. In the research component the author examines how using source information taken from a Facebook profile as opposed to a direct quote affects the perceived credibility and newsworthiness of a news story. This section includes a literature review, text of solicitation stories and charts of solicitation results.