Thursday, October 18, 2018

Trusting News, Georgia school of journalism partnering


Trusting News, a project aimed at empowering journalists to earn consumers’ trust, is adding research and training support from a partnership with the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.  
The Trusting News project, which was founded at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, has worked with more than 50 news outlets since 2016 to find out what news consumers trust and to test strategies intended to build trust. 
Engagement strategist Joy Mayer, who founded the project, is preparing to share the latest round of findings this fall at TrustingNews.org and to train more newsrooms in how to earn trust with the help of the Grady College.
Faculty members will recruit newsrooms in the Southeast to participate and train them on how to implement Trusting News strategies, says Charles Davis, dean of Grady College.
The college will also provide researchers and resources with the goal of producing at least one research study a year, he says.
"I'm thrilled that our journalism faculty will be part of Trusting News,” adds Janice Hume, head of the journalism department at Grady. 
The Trusting News project is also supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Democracy Fund.

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