Our interviewers used a template developed by the Trusting News project at the University of Missouri to ask Montana residents what they think of the news media. In early March, 2018, we spoke to 19 people one-on-one about their personal news habits…
by Matthew Skillman and Deborah Potter. January 17, 2018, was a special day for President Donald Trump. He tweeted a link to GOP.com, the Republican Party’s main political website, which announced the winners of the “Fake News Awards.” “Winners” included…
By Maddie Vincent. ESPN reporter Britt McHenry was suspended for a week in 2015 after insulting a towing lot attendant. In a tweet, McHenry apologized for regrettable things she said, concluding that as frustrated as she was, she should have…
by Walter Pfau. Depending on who you ask, you’ll get different answers to the question, “Can Americans tell the difference between news and opinion?” Fox News host Sean Hannity believes they can. “We have to give some credit to the American people,…
By Callahan Peel. Seth Rich was found dead near his home on July 10, 2016, with two bullet wounds in his chest. Two weeks later, Wikileaks released thousands of internal emails from the Democratic National Committee. Conspiracy theorists and Fox…
By Beau Baker. News anchor Walter Cronkite was said to be the “most trusted man in America” during his time at the helm of CBS’s Evening News. He cut a paternal figure and weighed in on some of our country’s…
By Matt Roberts. Ever since Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic, has been claiming that America has been watching two different movies on the same screen. In one movie, Trump is an…
by Alina Sturgess. As journalists strive to regain the public’s trust, one trend they must take into account is their own remoteness. Newsrooms in general lack racial and ethnic diversity, the majority of sources quoted in stories are white and…
by Deborah Potter. We all know what’s happened to trust in the news media. It sank to a new low in 2016, according to Gallup, with just 32 percent saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in…
by Deborah Potter. When you produce a story, are you thinking of how people are going to consume it? Mick Côté, digital news editor at The Canadian Press, says that in most newsrooms the answer is typically, “No.” And that’s a shame.…
