Disinformation networks prey on an uncertain public to undermine faith in societal institutions and sow hatred. In this panel discussion, find out why news is a target and what we can do to help the p...
Sally Lehrman
An internationally recognized expert and speaker on building a more trustworthy press, Lehrman was named one of MediaShift's Top 20 Digital Innovators (2018) for her work founding and leading The Trust Project. Previously an award-winning reporter on medicine and science, her honors include a Peabody Award, duPont-Columbia and the John S. Knight Fellowship, with bylines in Scientific American, Nature, Health, and the public radio documentary series, The DNA Files, distributed by NPR, among others. Her co-written and edited volume, Reporting Inequality: Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity, was published in 2019; an earlier book, News in a New America, argues for an inclusive U.S. news media. She is affiliated with the UC-Santa Cruz Center for Science and Justice as Science and Justice Professor.
Journalism that provides diverse voices and diverse perspectives is core to trustworthy journalism, but for too long the global news industry has been more talk than action when it comes to diversity ...
So you've joined the Trust Project. Now the real work begins. How to marshall newsroom resources to optimize for trust. Is all this new work worth it? What can news organizations learn about working t...
We definitely need to upgrade the supply of journalism. But we equally need to upgrade *us* -- the "consumers" of media and other information, by also focusing on the demand side of the equation. Jour...
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