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Mark Coddington and Seth LewisOctober 8, 2020

Journalism faces a crisis in trust. Journalists fall into two very different camps for how to fix it

Plus: Life in a news desert, how journalists forge a digital self on social media, and online harassment of journalists as “mob censorship.”

Joshua BentonSeptember 28, 2020

A new set of threats to the BBC — internal and external — challenges its role as anchor of U.K. media

The BBC functions as a heat sink for polarization — converting potentially dangerous energy into something the system can more easily deal with. A new group of broadcast competitors and its likely new set of bosses see it differently.

Joshua BentonSeptember 17, 2020

For COVID-19, as with everything else, Americans on the right and left live in different universes when it comes to trusting the media

A new study looks at how people in seven countries view the motives of the news media in covering the pandemic. Only in the United States is that a profoundly partisan question.

Joshua BentonAugust 21, 2020

What can “folk theories of journalism” tell us about why some people don’t trust us?

“Many of our interviewees had little direct experience with news, yet they ‘knew’ they could not trust it, or found it boring, or that it was part of a shady system intended to hide important matters from them.”

Jacob L. NelsonMarch 27, 2020

The news media sounded the alarm on coronavirus for months — but few listened. Why?

“It’s clear that the public’s lack of trust in journalism generally mirrors the public’s lack of trust in coronavirus journalism specifically.”

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 24, 2020

Republicans and Democrats live in “nearly inverse news media environments,” Pew finds

“In the more compact Republican media ecosystem, one outlet towers above all others: Fox News. It would be hard to overstate its connection as a trusted go-to source of political news for Republicans.”

Joshua BentonNovember 22, 2019

Damaged newspapers, damaged civic life: How the gutting of local newsrooms has led to a less-informed public

“If you don’t have a newspaper staff who points out when things aren’t working, there is no impetus behind trying to put somebody new in, right?”

“Trust cannot be repaired without truth”: Pew crunched the numbers on faltering trust in government, journalists, and more

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 26, 2019

Want to build trust with readers? Try adding a box that explains the story process

“Small steps by news organizations can have an influence on building trust with their audiences.”

Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-MoralesNovember 26, 2018

New data suggests African audiences see significantly more misinformation than Americans do

More than a quarter of Kenyans and Nigerians surveyed said they had shared stories that they knew were made up.

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