Ethics and Trust

Resilience in Combating Misinformation

  • Joy Mayer
  • Norbert Schwarz
  • Gabriella Stern
  • Moderated by Meena Thiruvengadam

Journalists today face disinformation and misinformation challenges as well as the simultaneous eroding of public trust in institutions. They are combating overt tactics to share...

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Information Equity Database (2023)

This updated ONA Information Equity Database is meant to help journalists reach and engage with communities who have been historically under- or misrepresented in journalism....

COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook (2023)

This updated COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook from the Online News Association is designed to help journalists and newsrooms quickly pinpoint COVID-19 facts and COVID-19...

ONA22 Walk In Someone Else's News: Is Reading Across the Spectrum Good for Democracy & Your Bottom Line?

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...

ONA21

Fact-Checking During the Pandemic: How Facebook Partners with Global Fact-Checkers to Tackle Misinformation

  • Aaron Sharockman
  • Keren Goldshlager
  • 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...

ONA21

Flacks ‘n Hacks: Re-Establishing Trust Between Journalists, Corporate Storytellers, and News Consumers

  • Jon Amar
  • Gregg Castano
  • Shandra Naegle
  • 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...

ONA21

Leading a Newsroom with Trust at the Center

  • 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...

ONA21

What Do Users Want? New Insights From Qualitative Research By The Trust Project

  • Willa Crolius
  • Charity Brown
  • 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 (2021)

This playbook was last updated in 2021. For the latest version, read our 2023 COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook. In late 2020, a group of reporters and editors from around the...