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In the past four years, Yvonne Leow has seen increasingly fervent articles, studies and op-eds declaring journalism’s essential role in a healthy democracy. Yet these proclamations have been strikingly disconnected from reality. -
Dozens of media funders responded with emergency COVID-19 local journalism relief funds. Yet, I can’t help but wonder, “Where has all of this money gone?” -
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our routines, transformed our social interactions and redefined our relationships. Yet, as odd as it sounds, we’ll likely come to appreciate some of the changes this crisis wrought. -
While we’ve been chasing that adulation and virality, social has been chipping away at the core of what journalism has spent decades building. -
Trust in news media isn’t a lost cause. Studies from the Media Insight Project, Gallup, Trusting News and others show that audiences put their trust in the news depending on certain factors that are present within the organization. -
Fundamentally, news consumers trust journalism that they find to be balanced, in-depth, honest and reputable. Those qualities appeared over and over in an analysis of 81 in-depth interviews our newsroom partners conducted with members of their communities. -
At Trusting News, we’re eager to see more than 350 editorials planned for today as part of an effort started by The Boston Globe to fight back against Trump’s “dirty war against the free press.” -
At the Fort Collins Coloradoan, we’ve been a Trusting News partner for three years, where we’ve focused on several strategies — from labeling our stories, to showing our personality, to explaining how we are different from “the media” as an overall entity. -
More than 30 newsrooms are making an investment in discovering how best to demonstrate credibility and earn trust by coming on board the Trusting News project. -
In the news this week, many publishers have been pivoting to video, but they’ve also lost a lot of traffic to their websites. Did they go too far? And Twitter is testing out doubling the size of tweets to 280 characters.