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How PolitiFact improved social media trust (and how your newsroom can do it, too)

Over 100 days, we used these methods to improve our trust with audiences that only casually engage with our content.

February 23, 2024

What is fair reporting? You be the judge

Newsweek launched a Fairness Meter for its stories in 2023 in an effort to restore trust in the relationship between the public and the news media.

February 16, 2024

Nancy Cooper

Opinion | A tale of two polls: media consumption and trust are down

Americans are following the news less closely than they used to, and 39% of American adults have no trust in it at all.

October 25, 2023

Tom Jones

Opinion | American trust in media is near a record low, study finds

Only 7% of adults have a ‘great deal’ of trust in news media, a new Gallup poll found. 38% say they have none at all.

October 20, 2023

Annie Aguiar

Opinion | When fairness is no longer a doctrine, it must be a practice

Though the Fairness Doctrine was abolished 35 years ago, its principles deserve a voluntary place in news organizations’ journalistic practices.

August 17, 2023

Nancy Cooper

Opinion | The storm has moved on, but southwestern Florida journalists are just getting started

Plus a look at national coverage, and how one local broadcaster rescued a woman stranded in her car by high water

September 30, 2022

Poynter Staff

How to reach mistrustful and light news readers? It’s difficult, but not hopeless.

Headlines, comments, graphics and photos are crucial. They cannot be won over just with good reporting and writing.

April 4, 2022

Rick Edmonds

How news organizations are using timestamp disclaimers to reduce misinformation

More and more outlets are adding labels to old articles and social media posts, notifying readers of potentially outdated information

February 17, 2022

Angela Fu

Opinion | Opinion: Opt-in to op-eds, a final attempt to distinguish news from opinion

Americans can’t tell the difference between fact and factoid and assign political labels to news outlets based on columnists rather than reporters.

September 14, 2021

Michael Bugeja

Opinion | Can better corrections improve news readers’ trust?

We can thank and reward readers who help us improve accuracy rather than treating them as nags.

February 10, 2021

Paul Glader

Readers may trust news stories more when they dont know their source

Readers’ trust in news stories depends more on the source’s alignment with their political preferences…

July 18, 2018

Taylor Blatchford

Reliability ratings from journalists could actually help audiences identify misinformation

Journalist-sourced reliability ratings of news outlets could actually affect readers’ perceptions of their accuracy, according…

June 27, 2018

Taylor Blatchford

Americans believe two-thirds of news on social media is misinformation

Americans believe 39 percent of news in newspapers, on TV or on the radio is…

June 20, 2018

Taylor Blatchford

Here is fresh evidence that journalists may misunderstand the public

The latest large-scale survey of public attitudes toward journalism and journalists' view of the public…

June 11, 2018

Rick Edmonds

The Washington Post won a Pulitzer for fighting fake news with facts

If there were a Pulitzer for journalism ethics, it would go to the Washington Post…

April 17, 2018

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

Opinion | A tale of two polls: media consumption and trust are down

Opinion | American trust in media is near a record low, study finds

Opinion | When fairness is no longer a doctrine, it must be a practice

Opinion | The storm has moved on, but southwestern Florida journalists are just getting started

Opinion | Opinion: Opt-in to op-eds, a final attempt to distinguish news from opinion

Opinion | Can better corrections improve news readers’ trust?

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