Community Engagement & Trust

Support for the watchdog One area where public confidence in the media has not eroded over the years is the watchdog role of the press. [...]

If politics causes a divide in trust, so does age. In general, regardless of party identification, younger adults are less likely to trust the news [...]

One possible explanation for an overall decline in trust is that parts of the media, especially TV, have blurred the distinction between opinion and straight [...]

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

A formatted PDF version of this report is available for download or printing here. You can also learn more about the Localore: Finding America projects [...]

“Break Form: Making stories with and for the people” was written and prepared by lead researcher Mallary Tenore, Localore Executive Producer Sue Schardt, editors Jessica [...]

Here we assess the reach and impact of two national Localore productions in 2014 and Finding America in 2017 across three platforms of engagement with [...]

What journalists learn from listening to voices Each Finding America team immersed themselves deeply in their communities, first as outsiders and, over time, building meaningful [...]

Telling stories with and for people, instead of merely treating people as “sources,” is no easy task. The Finding America lead producers faced myriad obstacles [...]

Visit Finding America’s metasite — findingamerica.airmedia.org — for additional context and ongoing updates from the projects below.  Anacostia Unmapped → Katie Davis, Brendan Sweeney, WAMU [...]