Not everyone we’re trying to reach with our news coverage is coming from a shared set of facts. When journalists publish something they accept to be true — such as the results of an election — what happens when that statement feels like an unsettled opinion to some of your audience? How can you as a journalist back up the facts you’re sharing? How can you show that your work is fair, accurate, and trustworthy? In this training, we’ll walk through how to bring your reporting receipts by explaining how and why you stand for facts and how you consistently source information and stories.
In this training series, Trusting News focuses on quick, actionable steps journalists can actually DO ahead of the 2024 election to help coverage feel credible and accessible to a larger audience.
Here’s what you can expect: In each session, we’ll spend 45 minutes focusing on how journalists can take action. We’ll include perspectives from partner journalists and show examples of how they’ve implemented these strategies in their own newsrooms. Then we invite you to stick around for another 15 minutes if you have questions or want help brainstorming.