Covering contentious topics, such as protests or social justice issues, can be challenging for news outlets. In the face of this, it’s important to seek out journalistic practices that are seen as credible by people across the political spectrum.
Utilizing solidarity reporting — where journalists prioritize the firsthand knowledge, insights and perspectives of people subjected to social injustice — to cover these social justice topics is found to be more credible, complete and trustworthy than another type of watchdog journalism known as monitorial reporting.
Now, a new study examines whether covering an abortion protest using a solidarity approach increases perceptions of news story credibility compared to a monitorial approach.
