Trusting News

Journalists must understand the power of community engagement to earn trust

Residents of neighborhoods that have been misrepresented have lost faith that coverage will ever improve.

February 28, 2023

Opinion | Take special care with coverage of police violence and protests

Journalists must make careful decisions about how to accurately and respectfully document events while also mitigating harm.

January 30, 2023

A new guide offers interview questions for newsrooms looking to diversify staff

Written by the Trusting News project, the guide seeks to help newsrooms hire for ‘dimensions of difference’

April 5, 2022

Americans believe the election system worked, but deep partisan divisions remain, study shows

59% approved of the media’s election coverage, but that number was largely driven by overwhelming support from Democrats

December 7, 2020

Harrison Mantas

Most Republicans don’t trust fact-checkers, and most Americans don’t trust the media

Almost half of Americans believe that fact-checkers are biased, and the majority of these skeptics…

July 3, 2019

Daniela Flamini

More Americans trust the media than they did last year and the majority trust local news

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Aug. 22, 2018) — There’s good news for journalists: three-quarters of Americans…

August 22, 2018

A more nuanced understanding of ‘journalism’ is desperately needed — and we need our communities’ help

At the Trusting News project, we work to empower journalists to demonstrate credibility by helping people understand…

June 29, 2018