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“One of the things I appreciated most about the Trusting News project is that Joy takes this big hairy topic of “trust in the media” and breaks it down into actionable steps,” says Sarah Binder. -
Some folks might think it’s a bit unusual for a print design professor to segue to a career researching and improving the relationships journalists have with their communities. Joy Mayer never gave it a second thought. -
Trusting News, a project intended to empower journalists to earn consumers’ trust, is adding research and training support from a partnership with the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. -
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. -
Journalists, we need to talk more about the “why” of what we do. What does the profession exist to do? Who do we serve? Why are we doing this story or covering this issue? -
Trusting News works to empower journalists to demonstrate credibility by helping people understand journalism. Never has that been more important than today. -
Joy Mayer said that while the Sinclair controversy might have caught attention in New York and Washington, “news consumers don’t understand the relationship between the local outlets and their parent companies,” especially when it comes to TV news. -
As newsrooms have joined the Trusting News work, we’ve asked them to think about how they might introduce the work to their audiences and how those audiences might be invited to weigh in. -
Three RJI Fellows are vying to present their ideas on improving journalism to South by Southwest audiences next spring in Austin, Texas. But first they must survive the panel selection process.
Donald W. Reynolds