At Trusting News, rather than accepting distrust in journalism, we work to better understand it so we can help journalists actively earn trust. We believe healthy democracies depend on civic dialogue and a shared set of facts. We also believe local news can play an especially important role in bridging conversations across political divides.
With this in mind, we conducted research with the Center for Media Engagement to better understand the societal and psychological forces that influence polarization and perceptions of news.
