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Connection has the power to counterbalance adversity. And this adversity, difficulty or distress can be self-inflicted as often as it can be unavoidable by outside factors.

This week’s Mental Health Reset challenge will require you to acknowledge your strengths as a journalist and ask you to turn those strengths in on yourself and your teams.  

It has been a very fast year. Instead of grinding at half-strength, take these next five Mondays of July to work through some leadership challenges that will directly and positively impact your mental health, and by proxy, the health and well-being of your team.

Want to shift your newsroom’s culture around engagement and building trust? Need buy-in for your ideas? Here are five tips for getting started. 

Instead of having them assume, tell your community who you are, what has shaped you and what experience you have. Doing this makes you human and relatable. It also can make you credible, respected and trusted.

Online comments represent a rich opportunity for journalists to tell the story of their work, get on the record about their integrity and answer questions about their ethics and process. 

Trusting News is sharing best practices for engaging audiences and building trust. How do you know what your community thinks of your work?

We invited newsroom leaders to talk about their transition to GA4 and I’ve pulled together some highlights of our conversation.

One of the first comments we heard from newsrooms who started setting up a GA4 instance — aside from, “Why, Google … why?!” — was “Where are my reports?”

For the rest of us, the bottom line is: If you’re stressed about losing a year’s worth of growth analysis, know that you’re not alone. Everyone’s in the same boat.