Finally some good news: Trust in news is up, especially for local media
After decades of declining trust in the press, coupled with relentless rhetorical attacks on theโฆ
Indira Lakshmanan is the executive editor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and a Boston Globe columnist. She also served as the first Newmark chair in journalism ethics at Poynter. At Poynter, Indira spurred thought leadership on restoring trust in journalism across the political spectrum through transparency and accountability. She commissioned two Poynter Media Trust Surveys in 2017 and 2018, and convened leading national political editors, journalists and media critics in Washington to discuss the importance of free, fair, nonpartisan media in truth-telling to hold officials accountable and sustain democracy. Lakshmanan has covered coups, campaigns and revolutions in 80 countries and the US for the Globe, Bloomberg, the International New York Times, NPR, PBS and Politico Magazine. From Washington, she covered politics and foreign policy, traveling with Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, and interviewing Clinton more than a dozen times for radio and TV. Indira wrote a "Letter from Washington" column for the international edition of The New York Times and Bloomberg. She has guest-hosted live national public radio programs including "On Point," "1A," "The Diane Rehm Show," "Here and Now," "Weekend Edition" and "The Takeaway," and is a frequent TV contributor. Indira graduated from Harvard University and did graduate studies at Oxford University. Her awards include a Nieman journalism fellowship.
After decades of declining trust in the press, coupled with relentless rhetorical attacks on theโฆ
The murder of five employees of an Annapolis, Maryland newspaper by a reader nursing aโฆ
President Trump has assaulted the press in so many ways itโs hard to keep track,โฆ
In the past two days, the Environmental Protection Agency barred some reporters โ perhaps illegallyโฆ
If there were a Pulitzer for journalism ethics, it would go to the Washington Postโฆ
If youโre in media or a news junkie, youโve probably heard more in the pastโฆ
Letโs talk about โoff-the-recordโ โ what it is, what it isnโt, why itโs a badโฆ
Sam Nunberg, a former aide in the Trump campaign who was fired in 2015, touchedโฆ
Jerome Corsi, the Washington bureau chief for the fringe media outlet Infowars, was kicked offโฆ
I graduated from school years ago and so did most of you, but boy, weโฆ
Newspapers arenโt democracies, much as we might like them to be, nor do their pagesโฆ
In the latest volleys in an endless war on the media, President Trump plucked arrowsโฆ
Distrust of the news media didnโt start with Donald Trump, but he has amplified andโฆ
As journalists, we tend to assume the public understands our jobs and how we doโฆ
It takes chutzpah for a man who for two decades phoned media outlets to praiseโฆ
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