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    How often funders get to review content before it is published

    What kind of communication do nonprofit news organizations and funders have about the news content that those funders underwrite? The answer varies depending on whether [...]

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    How much funders specify the content news organizations produce

    How specific are funders about the content they want to finance? General operating support grants, which allows a nonprofit media organization the most freedom regarding [...]

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    The nature of grants that fund nonprofit news organizations

    In all, more foundations surveyed said they are funding nonprofit journalism — both to nonprofit media and in collaborations with commercial media — than they [...]

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    Most funders think donations to news organizations meet their objectives

    In the end, do funders think their underwriting of media is accomplishing what they want? More than half of foundations said they consider their media [...]

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    The relationship between general news habits and trust in the news

    The majority of the public follows news and information with great interest and frequency. And trust seems to be an important component related to how [...]

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    The meaning of trust in news

    This study was designed to move beyond traditional conceptions of trust in the news. These general measures of trust have been identified in long‑standing academic [...]

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    A new understanding: What makes people trust and rely on news

    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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    About the study

    Survey methodology This survey was conducted by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the American Press Institute (API) and The Associated Press‑NORC Center for [...]

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    How people decide what news to trust on digital platforms and social media

    Digital formats provide distinctly different opportunities for people to engage with news and information than do traditional print and broadcast media formats. In doing so, [...]

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    How trust can be broken, and the decline of confidence in the press

    Research from others has noted that Americans’ trust in the press has been declining, with occasional interruptions, for roughly two decades. This study finds that [...]

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