Interviews for research purposes.

1. Interview Q&A
Erik Kruetzfeld- U of C political science 2nd year student
1. Where do you usually consume your news media?
● News mobile apps
● Huffington post
● Washington post
● Provincial website
● Federal website
● IG for Trudeau and Jason Kenney accounts on parties updates
2. How do you manage navigating misinformation?
● Consume as much as I can, and determine my own idea of truth. Find factual
sources and decide my own idea and story from them.
● Look at multiple sources to get a well rounded idea and form my own opinion and
view.
CNN, new york times, CBC, fox news,
3. What kind of features would you like to see on the website?
● Determine a biased article and remove it.
● Like to see both sides,liberal and conservative
● Source citations to demonstrate credibility
4. What emotions do you feel when searching for news?
● Curiosity
● Disbelief

2. 5. How has viewing the media changed since Covid, big differences or the
same in trustworthiness?
● Very skeptical since covid, trustworthiness has gone down since the pandemic.
6. How important is it to you to find accurately sourced information?
● 8-9 on a rating scale
7. What websites have you used to access news?
● MSN news since it was the default on his computer
8. Top platforms to access news?
● Usually from social media, political figures Instagram accounts.

3. Interview Q&A
Shayna Campbell- High school teacher
1. Where do you typically consume your news media?
● News mobile apps
● News app on iPhone
● Social media apps like Facebook or Instagram (but often have to google afterwards to
fact-check)
2. What kind of features would you like to see on the website?
● Possibly being able to share on other platforms about the progress or many articles
you've read on a certain topic as a way to encourage others to do so as well.
● I follow an Instagram page called “Hanks Good News” because I just want some happy
news in my life sometimes instead of the grim things being reported on all the time.
Having a space for that on the website could be really helpful to viewers and make it
stand out.
3. What emotions do you feel when searching for news?
● Anxious
● Overwhelmed
4. How has viewing the media changed since Covid, big differences or the same in
trustworthiness?
● My trust in the media has weakened after Covid, just because people can post whatever
they want and then believe what they want to believe. Being a young adult, I want to be
more updated on the news and current events, but I also want to have a well-rounded
and accurate opinion on those topics.
5. How important is it to you to find accurately sourced information?

4. ● 10 on a rating scale because it is important to consume accurate information, otherwise
what is the point of reading up on a topic if it is not verifiable. Plus, reading inaccurate
information enables people to share it with others when it isn’t credible or true.
6. What websites have you used to access news?
● I like reading news articles on websites more, I think because you just have better
access to all the information, and I usually go to legitimate Canadian news sites like CBC
or Global news.
7. Do you have different apps for different kinds of news?
● Just depending on people that I follow on the apps, it will be different news, but I don’t
have one app specifically for a particular kind of news and then another app for a
separate group of news.
● With those social media apps, family and friends has a large influence on media bias
because they contribute so much to sharing their opinions on news. All the time I have to
go and Google news articles to get some more information, but then how do you know if
the news article is biased or not.