A lot of great ideas from Trusting News.
The biggest need and priority for news publishers is to increase engagement practices in newsroom routines so that coverage reflects the whole community. This can be done by building relationships with more diverse communities, such as rural, conservative, BIPOC, and younger audiences.
Newsrooms that want to evolve can do targeted community listening, host events, and interact more online and in real life. Do more than just report about and for the community. Report with the community. Make sure all voices are being heard and all issues are being addressed.
"Listening to and engaging with your community is foundational to building trusted relationships."
This post from the Trusting News team is full of good ideas, but possibly the most crucial effort is challenging the newsroom echo chambers. Think about it.
- If journalists can't have difficult conversations with their own colleagues, how can they have them with the leaders and power brokers they're covering?
- Many journalists who challenged the status quo in their traditional newsrooms have left those jobs and joined organizations that truly are working to sustain journalism for the future. That's a huge loss for those mainstream newsrooms that need visionaries to survive.
- Young journalists need to experience debate and constructive criticism in order to grow and improve. If you want better young journalists, have better conversations.
Trusting News’ 2024 priorities include AI, elections, news avoidance and newsroom echo chambers - Trusting News
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Great idea. I'm doing something similar here in my tiny spot in Nevada. Several new faces at Newsday. Still the same great paper!