
Joy Mayer
Director at trustingnews.org
Director of @TrustingNews. (It's up to journalists to demonstrate credibility and *earn* trust.) Formerly @mujschool. Mom to Thing One and Thing Two.
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2 months ago |
americanpressinstitute.org | Joy Mayer
The American Press Institute recently completed a yearlong project to outline opportunities to improve local journalism and limit polarization — specifically by enabling news leaders and non-news experts to inform each other’s work. Below is a reflection from Joy Mayer, executive director of Trusting News, an independent organization previously co-hosted by the Reynolds Journalism Institute and American Press Institute.
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Oct 14, 2024 |
jou.ufl.edu | Sue Wagner |Joy Mayer
Janet Coats, managing director of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology, and Joy Mayer, executive director and founder of Trusted News, are the authors of the opinion piece “Where’s the Coverage of Communities That Didn’t ‘Dodge a Bullet’ with Hurricane Milton?” published on poynter.org on Oct. 11.
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Jul 9, 2024 |
trustingnews.org | Joy Mayer
Trusting News embedded in a statewide program with the Oklahoma Media Center Today’s local news landscape is complicated and messy, and a lot of words are being written about the demoralizing nature of shrinking resources. That’s all true. It’s also true that the local news ecosystem overall is diverse and interesting, full of experimentation, collaboration and a continued orientation toward public service.
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May 7, 2024 |
trustingnews.org | Joy Mayer
Journalists, get inspired by how these two local newsrooms are inviting accountability and transparency into their elections coverage. We’ve written a lot lately about how newsrooms should get on the record about their approach to covering elections. We figure if we can keep bringing you new examples, maybe you’ll be exposed to the nudge you need (or your boss needs!) to invest in telling the story of your work.
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Apr 18, 2024 |
trustingnews.org | Joy Mayer |Mollie Muchna
Project manager Mollie Muchna (she/her) has spent the last 10 years working in audience and engagement journalism in local newsrooms across the Southwest. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she is also an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism. She can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @molliemuchna.
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I'm looking forward to this. ISOJ is such a thoughtful event, really beautifully combining theory and practice.

How to rebuild trust in journalism after years of attacks and credibility declines 💬🔑Join @michaelbolden (API), @bestwrit (The Trust Project), @mayerjoy (Trusting News), and Stephen Buckley (The Dallas Morning News) at ISOJ 2025 to explore solutions. https://t.co/S8UUoVd81m https://t.co/WDgb0pkuFu

RT @TrustingNews: Thanks, journalists, for all your continued hard work covering these elections. We're still updating our doc of copy/pa…

Journalists, thank you for the work you're doing! Keep an eye on this doc as you explain your work to the public ... we'll be updating it.

Our team has created a Google Doc we'll be updating all week with suggested language for explaining both elections AND news coverage of elections. Keep it handy, and steal any helpful language. https://t.co/JjFPrNiJwT https://t.co/fSR7DvtjAw