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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. -
In the digital media world, there’s no guarantee that material that appears one minute will be there the next. -
Journalism’s purpose is to facilitate understanding. Government also has a sense-making apparatus. Conflict between journalism and the intelligence community has obscured a remarkable range of similarities between them. -
Journalists have known the power of emotion for a long time. The best of journalism taps into it through powerful stories of humanity or through deep investigations that produce outrage or wonder. That’s not most journalism. -
In the news this week, President Trump’s first budget strips funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which could be devastating for small market local public stations. The Feds indicted four Russians for the massive hacking breach at Yahoo.
Donald W. Reynolds