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These projects aim to restore trust. In a blog post earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of Credibility as the new currency of journalism , its significance in an era of distrust of the media, and its economic value for high-quality journalism. A big thank you to Christine Schmidt of Nieman Lab who has just produced a helpful list of news credibility projects . Among other things, it shows how the Knight Foundation is giving help to many of them. Below is an abbreviated form of Schmidt's list, with a few details on each project. Trusting News Participants/partners : Mainly local newsrooms, such as WCPO, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, St. Louis Magazine; also A Plus, Religion News Service, CALmatters, Discourse Media, USA Today The Trust Project Participants/partners : News outlets like the Washington Post, The Economist, the Globe and Mail, Mic, and Zeit Online; tech companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Bing; Institute for Nonprofit News News Integrity Init...

"You have to practice the values of independence and honesty." University of Navarra photo. An icon of Spanish broadcast journalism, I�aki Gabilondo , delivered a message last week designed to inspire and challenge 400 students and professors of journalism. "The future hasn't been written yet:, he told them. "The question, 'What is going to happen?' is irrelevant. What will happen will be determined by what you do, what you don't do, and what you allow to happen." Gabilondo, 73, was speaking at his alma mater, the School of Communication of the University of Navarra (class of 1963), where he also was a professor for several years. His eloquent baritone voice is well known to Spaniards after decades of presence on the morning radio news program Hoy por Hoy , roughly equivalent to NPR's Morning Edition . He recently asked Martin Baron , executive editor of the Washington Post, how journalism can survive amid all the problems we face, includin...

Money talks. Put your money where your mouth is. Show me the money. We have lots of expressions that equate money with crebility and trust. How people get and spend their money is often the most credible expression of what they value and who they are. We attribute so much value to money and to the way it expresses our true beliefs that historian Yuval Noah Harari declared in his bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind : "Money is accordingly a system of mutual trust, and not just any system of mutual trust: money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised." By extension, this belief in money as the best measure of value of everything in modern society -- the loss of a loved one (insurance payouts), the salary of a teacher or a CEO, a barrel of oil -- has led us to trust markets too much . In fact, many studies have shown that the media marketplace puts great value in misinformation , disinformation, sensationalism, gossip, and en...

Anyone who has studied the metrics of the internet in any detail knows about the Big Lie : those big numbers of total users and page views that everyone relies on are practically meaningless . More than half of the visitors to websites stay for less than 15 seconds . Three-fourths of the users of the most important news sites in the U.S. visit only once or twice a month . How can you even consider them users? Half of the internet users in 26 countries are getting their news through social media rather than the originating news sites themselves, according to the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2016. 43% of social media users don't know where the stories they read originally appeared . Jon Slade of the Financial Times In other words, millions of clicks or millions of users are not an indication of trust in a particular news brand or loyalty to that brand. We need new metrics, better metrics. Versi�n en espa�ol So it was heartening to see this reality affirmed by of one ...