Ann Elise Taylor talks about lessons learned from the Social Media and Trust Project. Ann Elise is the news editor at the Ogden Standard-Examiner in Utah.

Ann Elise from the Ogden Standard-Examiner

Libby Cunningham talks about what she wanted her newsroom to achieve during the Social Media and Trust project. Libby is the social media producer at WCPO in Cincinnati.

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APlus

For our 14 partner newsrooms, testing these new strategies meant spending some time outside of their normal social media routines. In order to craft social posts designed specifically to earn trust, our partners thought critically about the relationships they have and hope to build with their users. Hear from five editors who challenged themselves to try on a new social media mindset for a few months, and who learned a lot about their online communities along the way.

Voices in this piece belong to: Maricar Estrella, Fort-Worth Star Telegram; Kathy Mahan, The Fresno Bee; Abby Rogers, A Plus; Ann Elise Taylor, The Ogden Standard-Examiner; Sara Robertson, KLRU.

Lessons Learned During The RJI Social Media And Trust Project

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A disclosure statement in the middle of a This American Life episode does a great job of explaining a potential conflict of interest and how journalists handled it. It's at 27:10 in this episode: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/684/burn-it-down

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