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    Embodying key principles and ethics of deep listening

    Listening can help news organizations inform and enrich their journalism. It also challenges reporters to pursue new and sometimes different relationships with people in their [...]

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    How to decide whom your newsroom needs to listen to

    To listen more deeply, newsrooms must first determine who should be the focus of their listening. One of the first questions we asked participants at [...]

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    How a culture of listening strengthens reporting and relationships

    When Journal Star executive editor Dennis Anderson created a reader advisory board with residents of Peoria’s predominately African American South Side in 2014, he knew [...]

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    Going forward: How ethnic and mainstream media can collaborate in changing communities

    The first thing a reporter needs to know about collaborating with an ethnic media journalist, said Univision host Jorge Ramos, is not to call him [...]

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    What journalists can learn from their local TV weather forecast

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    Americans and the News Media: What they do — and don’t — understand about each other

    This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs [...]

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    What Americans know, and don’t, about how journalism works

    People are strikingly unfamiliar with terms that many journalists use, probably without thinking — such as the difference between an editorial and a news story, [...]

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    How does personal experience with news affect a person’s views?

    The extent of personal experience a person has with journalism — including being covered or interviewed in the news, or having some education in journalism [...]

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    Levels of trust and how Americans feel about the fairness and accuracy of the press

    Trust in the media overall has declined in the last year, but people’s trust in their favorite news outlet has grown. If we look at [...]

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    How Americans describe their news consumption behaviors

    Most Americans describe themselves as active news consumers. Sixty‑three percent report that they seek out news and information. Far fewer, 37 percent, say they mostly [...]

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