Discussing diversity issues and working to produce news coverage that more accurately reflects and depicts what is happening in your community can be a daunting task. While this work isn’t easy, at Trusting News, we believe it’s essential if you want to build trust with your community, engage with them…

Talking publicly about diversity issues can be challenging. But, as with anything journalists do, actions and intentions (especially good ones) are likely to go unnoticed by news consumers. If you don’t tell your community that you are working toward a goal, that you have ethics, that you care about getting…

Through the Leap innovation training program, The International Center for Journalists and Trusting News challenged journalists to answer this question: What can we build to increase trust in journalism now — and ensure misinformation and polarization do not find a foothold in future spaces? After 10 weeks of working together…

When it comes to trust, local news organizations have been the bright spot for the journalism community as years of research and polling continue to show people trust in local news content more than national. For many people working in local news, that trend brings comfort, hope and sometimes makes…

The Trusting News staff is excited to be training and leading conversations with journalists in person again! We cannot do the work we do without the help of journalists. So whether it means saying hello to some of our longtime partners, meeting people IRL for the first time or being…

This post will continue to be updated with new examples. Does your audience know about your goals for election coverage? Or, like so much of journalism’s internal deliberations, is your purpose invisible to outsiders? At Trusting News we find a lot of newsrooms have a strategy for covering an election…

At Trusting News, one of the key strategies we help newsrooms with is explaining their reporting process to their community. We do this because we know it can improve a user’s perception of the news organization. Explaining the reporting process can take many forms, and we often experiment with newsrooms…

The International Center for Journalists and Trusting News are accepting applications for a new training program focused on building trust and transparency in media to better engage and serve communities and provide a beacon of reliable information. The program is part of Leap, ICFJ’s news innovation lab. …

Trusting News is excited to welcome Samantha Walker to the team this summer! Originally from Joplin, Mo., Walker is currently entering her third year at the University of Missouri, where she is working toward a journalism degree with a focus in broadcasting. …