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Trust Project partners say: ‘Welcome!’

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The Trust Project’s collaborative nature spans the globe and is a unique hallmark of the consortium. We are proud to partner with German press agency dpa, The Economist, Facebook, The Globe and Mail, Google, the Independent Journal Review, Mic, Italy’s La Repubblica and La Stampa, Trinity Mirror and The Washington Post in the official launch of the Trust Indicators. Here’s how they announced their participation in the Trust Project. dpa The Economist Facebook The Globe and Mail Google La Repubblica La Stampa Mic Trinity Mirror

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‘Storyful Podcast’: Can trust in the news be repaired?

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Michael Flynn’s guilty plea in the FBI Russia probe puts the critical role of accurate, trustworthy news into sharper focus. Listen to Director Sally Lehrman and TTP partner Craig Newmark in The Storyful Podcast talk about how the Trust Project is working to build that trust. “We’ve got a lot of good things coming on so I’m very optimistic about the future of trustworthiness in news,” Newmark says in the podcast. “That’s the silver lining here because we do have a situation where we’re very concerned about trust. At the same time, there’s a swath of people who are avid news users who are actively …

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Mic Publisher Cory Haik talks trust on ‘AirTalk’

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Mic Publisher and Trust Project partner Cory Haik took to the podcast waves Nov. 30 on KPCC’s “AirTalk” to discuss how Mic and the Trust Project are working to build trust and transparency in news. In the segment, she details the challenge of trying to solve the problem of trust, the collaboration with the Trust Project and the reader demand for solutions like the Trust Indicators. “These indicators are things that most journalism organizations have — an ethics and standards guideline policy,” Haik says. “What we do as part of the Trust Indicators is we publish those in a very visible …

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A big week for the Trust Project

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Since our official launch of the Trust Indicators on Nov. 16, it’s been an exciting ride. Director Sally Lehrman took a rare moment to reflect on this milestone in a LinkedIn article. In it, she poses the question that started it all: Could we use algorithms to help people find trustworthy journalism instead of cat videos and police mug shots? A few years, and an international collaboration of 75+ news organizations later, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Leading News Outlets Establish Transparency Standards to Help Readers Identify Trustworthy News Sources

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Media Contact Deborah Lohse | SCU Media Communications | [email protected] | 408-554-5121  Leading News Outlets Establish Transparency Standards to Help Readers Identify Trustworthy News Sources Google, Facebook, Bing and Twitter to use these “Trust Indicators” to highlight credible journalism SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2017 —   At a time when the public’s trust in news is declining in much of the world, the news industry is launching a new set of transparency standards that help people easily assess the quality and reliability of journalism. Leading media companies representing dozens of news sites have begun to display Trust Indicators, which provide …

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Trust Project Receives Funding to Develop Trust in Media

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As part of an initiative to rebuild trust in journalism, The Knight Foundation has provided $100,000 of funding to the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics’ Trust Project. As reported in Forbes, the Trust Project is “developing open-source software toolkits to help newsrooms convey their commitment to ethics, independence and inclusive, accurate reporting to the public.” Stories about the funding are also writtten in The Miami Herald and EContent. In a recent article for Ozy.com, Sally Lehrman, director of Journalism Ethics, discusses the Trust Project’s efforts to hold news accountable and to “try to move the whole field in the direction of improving quality, rather than …

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The Founding of the Trust Project

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Journalism Ethics Director Sally Lehrman talks with Richard Gingras, vice president of news at Google, and Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, about their inspiration for supporting and helping to shape the Ethics Center’s Trust Project.  The project is creating tools for readers to recognize trustworthy reporting and for platforms such as Google to identify and feature high quality journalism. The panel also discusses the problem of fake facts and other challenges to supporting an informed public.

Stories with Transparency

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In a blog post for the Institute for Nonprofit News, Gabriel Hongsdusit wrote about the work that Sally Lehrman is doing with the Trust Project. “The Trust Project is providing actionable solutions to help newsrooms foster deeper audience engagement and highlight the competency, ethics and dependability of their work,” wrote Hongsdusit. Lehrman and the Trust Project have also been mentioned in a recent story in Nieman Reports.

The Fight Against Fake News

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In an article for Fox 26 News, Sally Lehrman describes the efforts of the Trust Project to provide transparency regarding the media. “We hope that our trust indicators become the new standard, that’s what we’re aiming for,” said Lehrman. “It’s more about creating transparency of what are the workings behind the news, what goes into a quality story.” (Photo credit: Terry Johnston)

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