News Release Archives - The Trust Project

Sites in U.S and Canada unveil Best Practices; A look back at 2024

December 19, 2024 by thetrustproject

Today news outlets in the United States and Canada take a big step toward addressing public uncertainty and declining trust in news. They are going liveimmediately with their Best Practices: Rigorous, clear policies and standards with the commitment to back them up. They worked with us in a pilot to roll out this anchor Trust Indicatorafter a months-long, detailed upgrade because of the critical need for access to trustworthy news in the face of rising misinformation and deep societal challenges. Expect more Trust Indicators® from them and others soon! Le Courrier (Nova Scotia) supports French-language communities in the province; and …

El Tiempo brings the Trust Project to Colombia

June 17, 2024June 17, 2024 by thetrustproject

The Trust Project congratulates El Tiempo, highly regarded for its investigative reporting, for earning the Trust Mark and joining our network. El Tiempo commands one of the highest circulations in Latin America and the highest web traffic in Colombia. El Tiempo’s team has worked closely with the Trust Project to incorporate the 8 Trust Indicators®. The integrity behind these indicators is now built into El Tiempo’s journalistic processes, news site, podcasts, video and even print. We view Trust Project growth in Latin America as critical because of the attacks on journalists and threats to their independent reporting on important societal …

The Trust Project Expands into Puerto Rico

June 17, 2024May 28, 2024 by thetrustproject

The Trust Project is proud to announce that El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico’s newspaper of record, has completed the hard work of incorporating the 8 Trust Indicators® into their journalistic processes, earning the Trust Mark logo. The most widely read news outlet in Puerto Rico, El Nuevo Día strives to hold power to account, report on solutions to everyday problems and serve as a platform for the voiceless. The Trust Indicators® – a “gold standard” in journalism transparency – emphasize the fundamentals of honest journalism: serving the public interest, separating opinion and paid content from news, protecting newsgathering from funder …

Building trust: Early findings from a collaborative study on Native Americans and news media

May 15, 2024May 14, 2024 by thetrustproject

To assess trustworthiness, Native news users prioritize ethics and depth While Native community members value news, they’re reluctant to trust it. Groundbreaking research by the Trust Project with the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance has yielded important insights to address this challenge. Native communities, including nearly 700 federally and state-recognized tribes in all, are among the fastest-growing populations in the United States. Native nations’ interests and actions have far-reaching implications for all Americans in every state, touching on land and water rights, environmental protection, child welfare, taxation and more. In user-centered design research, Trust Project researchers gathered expertise from 14 Native …

New Eye-Tracking Research Confirms Power of Trust Indicators®

September 14, 2023 by thetrustproject

News Skeptics, Who are Most Vulnerable to Misinformation and Disinformation, Most Positively Affected Journalistic transparency elements are both read by users and significantly strengthen credibility and trust in news, according to groundbreaking eye-tracking research by the University of Georgia’s Digital Media Attention and Cognition (DMAC) Lab, the Trust Project® and DMAC announced. According to Reuters’ 2023 Digital News Report, trust in news fell by two percent across all markets in the last year, leaving a staggering 56% of people worried about distinguishing real news from fake news on the internet. In the quest to repair this erosion of trust, educating …

Media Stakeholders Unite in Commitment to Tackle Misinformation

May 14, 2024June 12, 2023 by thetrustproject

The International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) and the Trust Project, together with the support of The Council of Europe, pledged to join different sections of the media in tackling misinformation following ICCO’s European Forum, held in Strasbourg on 1st June. The pledge aims to engage a variety of membership bodies representing different sections of the media spanning PR & Communications, broadcast media, journalism, and online media. The pledge consists of ten commitments that focus on investing resources in the continuous education of employees, clients and audiences on information threats and trusted media sources. The Trust Project is an international consortium …

National Trust Indicators Campaign Launches

October 5, 2022September 20, 2022 by thetrustproject

Trust Project teams with influential news literacy partners By now, you may have seen an ad on Microsoft news or Outlook surfaces reminding people what trustworthy news looks like. This nonpartisan campaign leverages our 8 Trust Indicators® to empower news users and strengthen democracy. The Trust Project® developed this new campaign in partnership with some powerhouse players: the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and UW’s Accelerating Social Transformation (AST) leadership program. Pamela Killborn-Miller directs the partnership and Microsoft is supporting the campaign. Through Trust Project research, we know that …

The Trust Project is expanding in Brazil!

October 5, 2022November 24, 2021 by thetrustproject

Every region in largest Latin American country now covered by the Trust Project (Em Português) The global Trust Network is reaching more deeply into a critically important region, where rampant false information harms both democracy and trust in reliable news. Three new sites in Brazil have earned the Trust Mark and joined our network of news organizations committed to transparency, impartiality and accuracy. The global Trust Network now extends extends to all five Brazilian geographic regions, including 6 states and the Federal District (Brasília). We welcome: GZH, the leading news site in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do …

Trust Project Adds News Partners to Global News Network

October 23, 2020September 16, 2020 by thetrustproject

Trust Project’s reach expands to Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America

Sept. 16, 2020 (PACIFICA, CALIF.) – The Trust Project, a global non-profit dedicated to transparency, accuracy and diversity in news, today announced the addition of six news partners, expanding its network of more than 200 news outlets to Argentina and Peru.

The following news sites have implemented the Trust Project’s 8 Trust Indicators and earned the Trust Mark: El Comercio (Peru), The Highlands Current (US), inewsource (US), La Nación (Argentina), Pocket-lint (UK), and YES! Magazine (US). El Comercio and La Nación are the first news organizations to join the Trust Project in their respective countries.

Trust Project Becomes Independent Nonprofit with $2.25M in New Funding

October 23, 2020May 30, 2019 by thetrustproject

May 30, 2019 (PACIFICA, Calif.) – The Trust Project, a global effort to address misinformation and the crisis of trust in news, announced today that it is spinning off as an independent nonprofit organization with $2.25 million in total gifts from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Facebook and the Democracy Fund. Incubated by Sally Lehrman at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the Trust Project is now poised to expand the use of its Trust Indicators, the first journalism transparency standard that helps people easily assess the authority and integrity of news. The Trust Project will use its new funding …