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Don’t overthink day-to-day transparency
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Diversify who you frame as an ‘expert’
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Describe a healthy local news diet (maybe for Local News Day next week!)
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Newsroom case studies
Journalists from around the world are creating products to create transparency and build trust with their communities
Through the Leap innovation training program, The International Center for...
Research insights: What we learned testing an anti-polarization checklist with news consumers
This post was written by Trusting News research partners Joshua...
Advice from journalists: Why and how we’re depolarizing our news
At Trusting News we wanted to see how journalists would feel after committing to using a...
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Trust Tips newsletter
Use a quick video to show why you’re trustworthy
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Help people ‘do their own research’
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Build trust and connection by thinking beyond facts
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Research
How to create an FAQ about your reporting
There is a lot the public doesn’t know about how journalism works. That’s reasonable when you...
Workshop helps journalists celebrate and understand their differences
If newsrooms want to build trust, they have to work to better understand and reflect the community...
Build trust by being real, right, objective and part of your community
When it comes to trust, local news organizations have been the bright spot for the...
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Resources
Step-by-step guide: How journalists can talk to people who don’t trust news (and build trust doing it)
If you’re a journalist wanting to reach more diverse audiences, especially audiences that have been historically ignored or underserved by your newsroom, a lot of that work starts with laying a foundation of trust. Without understanding the assumptions that have led...
Advice from journalists: Why we’ve invested in listening to people who don’t trust us
There’s no big secret when it comes to building new audiences. There’s no new beat or newsletter that can be created to undo decades of harm news organizations have caused to certain groups of people. And there’s no magic tool journalists can use that will...
People don’t assume journalists have ethics. Here’s how you can highlight yours.
Do journalists have solid ethics? It’s a question that, depending on who you ask, will probably result in very different answers. Ask a room full of journalists, and they will probably say, “of course we do.” Ask a group of students (something I do often) and you’re...