Want access to exclusive member-only content? Log in with your ONA member account.

Building Trust: Newsroom Tools for the “Fake News” Era

Presented at ONA19
September 11, 2019
More from this event →

In a “fake news” era, audience trust is difficult to earn but fundamental to success. Join this masterclass to learn about emerging research and practices from experts in the fields of trust and transparency and to bring research-backed and ready-to-implement solutions to your newsroom.

This session is designed for:

  • Newsrooms confronting a trust deficient in their audiences
  • Thought leaders trying to grasp trust’s political and social dimensions
  • Anyone who would like to better understand how trust is built and lost

Speakers

Talia Stroud
Director, Center for Media Engagement, UT-Austin Center for Media Engagement
Joy Mayer
Director, Trusting News
Sally Lehrman
CEO, The Trust Project
Ashley Alvarado
Director, Community Engagement, Southern California Public Radio
Social Conversation

Related Resources

ONA19

Preparing for the Future of Deepfakes

  • Matthew Wright
  • Jeremy Gilbert
  • Joan Donovan
  • Moderated by Claire Wardle

Cheap, high-fidelity video and audio hoaxes are coming soon to political arena, and journalists on the front lines of misinformation need new tools to prevent abuses by powerful...

ONA19

Creating Guidelines for Machine Learning in the Newsroom

  • Mark Hansen
  • Troy Thibodeaux
  • Marina Walker Guevara

As journalists become more adept at borrowing from data science to produce new methods of analysis, they will increasingly need guidelines for story sourcing in terabytes of messy...

ONA19

Digital Forensics: Using Social and Online Tools to Find Great Stories

  • Jane Lytvynenko
  • Ashley Feinberg
  • Malachy Browne
  • Moderated by Michelle Baruchman

Notable figures, like all of us, exhibit specific, personalized behavior online, creating internet footprints visible to anyone via ethical and public digital sleuthing. Join this...