Trusting News
With information overwhelming social media users, it’s important for media organizations to ensure their listeners/viewers/readers can trust their reporting. Questions like, “How do people decide what news is trustworthy?” or “How can journalists influence what users consume and share?” have come up repeatedly at public forums that WITF journalists have participated in.
To help answer those questions, WITF is taking part in the Trusting News project – an effort to create strategies designed to demonstrate the credibility and trustworthiness of journalism. We are taking steps to explain to you our editorial process, demonstrate our approach to ensure our stories are balanced, be as accessible and responsive as possible, describe our ethics and funding and show how we are distinct from other media organizations.
The days of journalism’s one-way street of simply producing stories for the public have long been over. Now, it’s time to find better ways to interact with you and ensure we meet your high standards of what a credible media organization should be.
Trusting News
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Mandel Ngan
WITF focuses election-fraud lie accountability policy on lawmakers in key areas involving democracy
In Pennsylvania, the election-fraud lie remains alive, pushed by elected officials who know that the 2020 election was free, fair and secure, and that the results were accurate.
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How WITF plans to cover elections
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Joe Ulrich
Go behind the scenes in WITF’s newsroom with Tim Lambert’s texting club
Connect with WITF news director and Morning Edition host Tim Lambert on issues related to trust and transparency in our newsroom.
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Willy Sanjuan
What is critical race theory? Here’s a look behind the protests and how racial issues are taught in Pa.
Critical race theory is not being taught in Pennsylvania public schools, and is different from school districts’ efforts to create equity plans.
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Kate Landis
Trusting News: Hey conservatives. Let’s talk.
Do you see your life and values reflected in local news? Are there issues you think journalists ignore?
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Manuel Balce Ceneta
WITF is connecting these lawmakers to their actions on the election-fraud lie. Here’s why
Elected officials should be held accountable. And, consistently presenting facts that reveal the lie may help diminish its power over those who believed and supported it.
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Jacqueline Larma
Countering the big lie: WITF newsroom’s coverage will connect lawmakers with their election-fraud actions
As part of WITF’s commitment to factual reporting, and because the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6 threatened America itself, we will use language in our reporting to show how elected officials’ actions supported the election-fraud lie that led to the insurrection.
By Tim Lambert and Scott Blanchard
