Here is a partial list of research, writing and projects that have informed the Trusting News project.

• First Draft News: Your guide to navigating the digital information ecosystems
• The Engagement Lab, an applied research and design lab dedicated to reimagining civic engagement for a digital culture
• Media Education Lab, working on improving  digital and media literacy education
• The modern news consumer: News attitudes and practices in the digital era, Pew Research Center 2016
• Online chaos demands radical action by journalism to earn trust, Richard Gingras and Sally Lehrman, 2014
• The Trust Project, exploring how journalism can stand out from the chaotic crowd and signal its trustworthiness
• The best ways for publishers to build credibility through transparency, Craig Silverman, American Press Institute, 2014
• Lies, damn lies, and viral content: How news websites spread (and debunk) online rumors, unverified claims, and misinformation, Craig Silverman, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, 2015
• A new understanding: What makes people trust and rely on news, American Press Institute, 2016
• Trust and journalism in a digital environment, Bernd Blöbaum, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2014
• Creating a trust toolkit for journalism, Josh Stearns, 2016
• Interacting is believing: interactivity, social cue, and perceptions of journalistic credibility on Twitter, Mi Rosie Jahng and Jeremy Littau, 2015
• Why ‘be transparent’ has replaced ‘act independently’ as a guiding journalism principle, Tom Rosenstiel, The Poynter Institute, 2013
• Connecting the dots: Why doesn’t the public trust the press anymore?, Craig Silverman, The Poynter Institute, 2012
• Rosen’s trust puzzler: What explains falling confidence in the press?, Jay Rosen, PressThink, 2012
• Corporate transparency: the openness revolution, The Economist, 2014
• Why a transparent culture is good for business, Neil Patel, Fast Company, 2014
• With imposed transparency and concerned millennials, a boom in corporate responsibility? Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 2016
• How to handle a story correction: Rolling Stone needs a transparency lesson, Alexis Sobel Fitts, Columbia Journalism Review, 2014
• Rethinking journalism: trust and participation in a transformed news landscape, Kees Brants, 2013
• What do frequent commenters want?, Eric French, The Coral Project, 2016
• Why hyping transparency distorts journalism ethics, Stephen J.A. Ward, MediaShift, 2013
• Setting the record straight: When the press errs, do corrections follow?, Scott R. Maier, Journalism Practice, 2007
• Hard to get a fix: the state of corrections in Bay Area news media, Mark Follman and Scott Rosenberg, MediaBugs, 2010
• Amid criticism, support for media’s ‘watchdog’ role stands out, Pew Research Center, 2013
• The dark side of user participation: the effect of calls to action on trust and information revelation, Naama Ilany Tzur, Lior Zalmanson and Gal Oestreicher-Singer, 2016
• The discursive construction of journalistic transparency, Tim P. Vos and Stephanie Craft, Journalism Studies, 2016