While previous studies have found a clear gap between users’ news preferences and editors’ news choices, whether a similar user–editor gap exists when it comes to news quality evaluations remains an open question. We therefore conducted a nation-wide survey of 7810 South Korean users, collected online social indicators from a digital news platform, and asked users and editors to evaluate the quality of 1500 news articles and rank-order these articles’ editorial importance, respectively. Even after controlling for users’ news preferences and news genres, we found that users distinguished news articles quality in a manner comparable to that of editors. Our analysis also showed that users with higher issue involvement, issue knowledge, or ideological strength tended to rate news quality similar to editors. Moreover, we found that ideological strength served as an alternative cognitive schema for issue knowledge for individuals who lacked sufficient knowledge to assess news quality.

尽管以前的研究发现用户的新闻偏好和编辑者的新闻选择之间存在明显的差距，但是在新闻质量评估方面是否存在类似的用户-编辑差距仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。因此，我们对7810名韩国用户进行了全国范围的调查，从数字新闻平台收集了在线社交指标，并要求用户和编辑者分别评估1500篇新闻的质量并对其排名进行排名。即使在控制了用户的新闻偏好和新闻类型之后，我们仍然发现用户以与编辑者相当的方式区分新闻文章的质量。我们的分析还显示，具有较高的议题参与度，议题知识或意识形态实力的用户往往对新闻质量的评价与编辑相似。而且，