Ethics and Trust

Walk in Someone Else’s News: Is Reading Across the Spectrum Good for Democracy & Your Bottom Line?
- Curtis Bram
- Courtney Hurley
Despite its societal impact and significant work being done to understand it, there are few practical solutions addressing the root of political polarization. This archived...

Fact-Checking During the Pandemic: How Facebook Partners with Global Fact-Checkers to Tackle Misinformation
- Aaron Sharockman
- Keren Goldshlager
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Moderated by Baybars Örsek
A conversation with Facebook and PolitiFact, moderated by International Fact-Checking Network Director Baybars Örsek, about how fact-checkers and Facebook addressed...

Flacks ‘n Hacks: Re-Establishing Trust Between Journalists, Corporate Storytellers, and News Consumers
- Jon Amar
- Gregg Castano
- Shandra Naegle
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Moderated by Shandra Naegle
The last five years of polarization, media bashing, and misinformation have led to unprecedented levels of media distrust. This distrust has been compounded by shrinking...

Leading a Newsroom with Trust at the Center
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Moderated by Lorie Hearn
In today’s fraught news environment, building trust is journalism’s guiding star — but a newsroom with trust at the center is about more than greater transparency and...

What Do Users Want? New Insights From Qualitative Research By The Trust Project
- Willa Crolius
- Charity Brown
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Moderated by Sally Lehrman
Emotion and trust in news are tightly linked, and not necessarily in ways we might expect. Learn from the Trust Project’s latest research on its 8 Trust Indicators, which show...
COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook
In late 2020, a group of reporters and editors from around the globe convened as part of the Online News Association’s Community Circles program. The journalists and editors...

Information Equity Database
Graphic Credit: Brian Mains, WCPO Channel 9 The #ONAinfoequity database provides resources for journalists to engage communities that are typically under- or misrepresented in...
Correct the Misunderstandings That Drive Some Attitudes About Journalism
- Lynn Walsh
Most non-journalists don’t know how journalists do their jobs. And why should they? We don’t do a great job of explaining it. Learn how you can correct misassumptions...
Cover Your Assets: How Not to Get Hacked and Other Essential Security Tips
- Megan Stifel
- Runa Sandvik
- Ahana Datta
- Julian Hayda
With every new tool to help report the news, there may also come new vulnerabilities that foreign actors among others can leverage to sow distrust in journalists, the Internet,...