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Articles tagged News Integrity Initiative (7)

Christine SchmidtOctober 3, 2019

The business case for listening to your audience is still murky (but early results are promising)

“Newsrooms generally reported increased levels of engagement and higher-quality conversations with audiences. Nearly all of the grant reports we reviewed reported increased engagement.” That (still) doesn’t yet translate into money.

Christine SchmidtFebruary 25, 2019

“Philanthropy desperately needs to be more agile”: Molly de Aguiar on grantmaking with local and national media

“The right approach is almost always giving up the illusion of control funders think they have and trusting that people closest to the work know what’s best.”

The EJC, Civil, and News Integrity Initiative launch an accelerator for European newsrooms

Christine SchmidtDecember 7, 2017

Can 5,000 strangers have a productive Facebook dialogue? Spaceship Media is about to try

“We think this will be a beacon of civility as the year progresses toward the midterms in this really polarized time.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 4, 2017

The News Integrity Initiative gives $1.8 million to 10 projects focused on increasing trust in news

“The flip side of disinformation is trust.”

Ricardo BiltonAugust 23, 2017

Five months in, the News Integrity Initiative is refining its focus on diversity, transparency, and trust

“Fundamentally, we have always seen NII as a public service project. We want people to feel powerful — visible, valued, and engaged in their communities because they are armed with relevant and reliable news and information.”

Padraic RyanMay 22, 2017

“Who’s your 4chan correspondent?” (and other questions Storyful thinks newsrooms should be asking after the French election)

“The example of France shows it is possible to curtail [misinformation] campaigns. But to do so, newsrooms need to move the discussion out of the realm of the theoretical and into the practical.”