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Joshua BentonOctober 31, 2018

This new project wants to do for news trust what FiveThirtyEight does for polls: Aggregate a bunch of signals into something meaningful

“The goal is to make those signals more useful and to help platforms…make better, more informed decisions about ranking and ad purchases — which we hope will help drive both promotion and financial support to quality news and away from disinformation, misinformation, and junk.”

Joshua BentonOctober 5, 2018

Here’s how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!)

About 13 percent of Americans don’t trust any news outlet at all. (They went 2-to-1 for Trump in 2016.)

Heather ChaplinSeptember 16, 2018

“The cure lies within us, if we have the will and the imagination to develop it”

“Because journalism is not The New York Times, or BuzzFeed, or the Miami Herald. When you strip everything down to its essential function, journalism is a system for collecting, synthesizing, verifying and distributing news. Everything else is just form.”

Joshua BentonSeptember 6, 2018

BuzzFeed, Bourdieu, and Samantha Bee: Here’s a collection of new research on where journalism is headed

“Recent love letters to journalistic innovations today read like declarations of world peace in 1938. Resisting the temptation to find sure-fire redeemers of journalism is important.”

Sorry to burst the bubble, but showing readers community-rated trust metrics doesn’t seem to help them trust the media more

Heather BryantJuly 19, 2018

The universe of people trying to deceive journalists keeps expanding, and newsrooms aren’t ready

“It’s going to be a while before we really have an understanding of how we work to combat it beyond the traditional methods that we have used for a few years now.”

Shan WangJuly 18, 2018

When a link to a news story shows the source of the story, some people end up trusting it less

Not that they can remember the source five minutes later, anyway.

Spencer TurcotteJuly 4, 2018

Tell me more: The Globe and Mail is slipping a little extra context into its stories (while explaining its editorial thinking along the way)

“As a news organization, it’s perhaps an opportunity for us to be helping people fill those gaps without forcing them to go to Wikipedia or start Googling things, just to try to get the background they crave on a story.”

With a light jab at Facebook, Apple News launches a 2018 midterm elections section that’ll “steer clear of rumor and propaganda”

Nancy WatzmanJune 8, 2018

How can we restore trust in news? Here are 9 takeaways from Knight-supported research

“Finding strategies for artfully conveying complex information in ways that break down attention and trust-based barriers represents the most important challenge in our politically tumultuous time.”

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