Journalism
Trust me, I’m a journalist
We're labouring under the illusion that the public trust us. Time to wake up.
audience engagement
Audience Engagement = Audience Respect
When they complain, we should feel some obligation to explain — even if that goes against the grain of the way we have always operated.
trust
Let's talk about trust in journalism
All the indicators are pointing at one thing: trust in journalism is in catastrophic decline. 2021 has to be the year where we reverse that.
trust
Social & Digital Coffee Break: let's amplify the experts
When two trade publications hit the headlines, and some worrying insight into the experience of female journalists online.
Journalism
Countering the understanding gap about what journalism is
Can we rebuild trust in news without helping people understand what journalism is?
reuters institute
Digital News Report 2019 launch: connecting with readers and building trust in news
The annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report was published today — and a panel discussed the implications for journalism of its key findings. Here's my notes.
gaming
By ignoring gaming, mainstream journalism is eroding trust with younger people
Are we making a terrible mistake by ignoring games in mainstream journalism?
Blogging
Building trust in news through transparency
Ipsita Agarwal, writing back in the summer [https://medium.com/@ipsita/trust-in-news-3c9afc15d3a1]: > There is perhaps a concept to be experimented with where a news publisher builds a news literacy project containing explainers of how some of its best reporting was done — how was the information collected, verified, and presented;
alt right media
Journalism is losing the culture war, because it's fighting last century's battles
When politicians can lie without consequence, our culture of fact-checking does little to stop them.
data
Google's trust deficit
Mark Wilson, summing up his thoughts [http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2012/07/the-annotated-world-the-future-of-geospatial-technology-edparsons-at-digitalsurrey.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marksweblog+%28markwilson.it%29] on last week’s Digital Surrey Google Maps talk [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/07/digital_surry_
citizen journalism
The media: under occupation
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/reporting.jpg] Laurie Penny [http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=13926]: > As more and more ordinary men, women and children without degrees in journalism acquire the skills and technology to broadcast text and video, the media has become another
branding
The new trusted sources
Really nice summation of the problem with the “people will always turn to trusted brands” idea [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2010-10-29/the-future-of-publishing-like-minds] that many people in traditional media companies cling to as their hope for survival: > The community gathers around its self-created experts, and with little cost structure