Reading news about China: how much do Chinese Australians trust the Australian media?

This article, 'Reading news about China: how much do Chinese Australians trust the Australian media?', was published in Communication Research and Practice, pp.1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2026.2658830

ABSTRACT 

Amidst growing tensions between China and allies of the US (of which Australia is one), there is an increasingly prevalent view of China as a national security threat. At the same time, the US and its ally countries have also been favourite destinations for outbound immigrants from China. Against this geopolitical backdrop, this paper gauges the level of trust in mainstream news stories among individuals in the cohort of first-generation Chinese-Australian migrants from the PRC. It also aims to identify the key factors that lie behind an observed difference in the level of trust between members of this Chinese-Australian cohort and Australia’s general public, in relation to mainstream news stories about China or Chinese-Australians. Integrating quantitative survey data with insights from in-depth interviews, this paper points to the need to update existing understandings of the relationship between trust and the media in an era of changing geopolitical dynamics.
 

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