PACIFICA, Calif., June 17,
2024 /CNW/ -- Two more news sites in
Latin America have embraced
transparency and integrity in a big way, making it easier for the
public in their regions to know they can access news they can
trust.
LatAm news sites tackle disinformation and
help audiences know what to trust with the 8 Trust
Indicators®
El Tiempo, in Colombia, and El
Nuevo Día, in Puerto Rico, join
news sites and services in Argentina, Brazil, Panama and Peru -- plus hundreds more globally -- in
showing the 8 Trust Indicators® on their pages.
The Trust Indicators® help people who want to stay informed
by making it easy to choose news with confidence. Together, they
demonstrate the fundamentals of honest journalism: serving the
public interest, separating opinion and paid content from news,
protecting newsgathering from funder or government interests, and
committing to impartiality, fact-checking and correcting
errors.
"Trust Project growth in Latin
America is critical as attacks on journalists and threats to
their independent reporting continue to rise," said Trust Project
founder and CEO Sally Lehrman. "As
we see elsewhere, disinformation and social polarization have led
to news anxiety and avoidance. The 8 Trust Indicators build
well-deserved confidence in a participating news site's commitment
to integrity."
The integrity these indicators represent is built into every
aspect of a newsroom: journalistic processes, the news site,
podcasts, video and even commercial transparency.
About 300 news sites and services now provide the Trust
Indicators on their pages.
The Trust Project is grateful to Craig Newmark Philanthropies
and Google for enabling us to support all of the Trust Project
Network sites in implementing the Trust Indicators.
About the Trust Project:
The nonprofit, nonpartisan
Trust Project is a global network of news organizations that affirm
and amplify journalism's commitment to transparency, accuracy and
inclusion. The Trust Project created the 8 Trust Indicators®, a
collaborative, journalism-generated and proven standard that helps
both regular people and technology easily assess the authority and
integrity of news. Polices and standards are shaped through user
research and enforced independently from the project's funding
sources. For more, visit: https://thetrustproject.org/faq/.
Media Contact:
Sally Lehrman
650-728-8211
slehrman@thetrustproject.org
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