The study defined five core principles or beliefs that drive most journalists. And it found that non-journalists offer unqualified majority support for only one of them – the idea that the press should provide people with facts.

There is less support for the principle that it’s important for the media to keep watch on public officials and the powerful, to give a voice to the less powerful, to put information out in the open and to spotlight a community's problems.

The study suggests ways that news organizations can reach people they may be turning off, showing that consumers are interested in news that highlights potential solutions to problems and want to hear about things that are working. http://apne.ws/feeG3dH