What are the National Credibility Roundtables?

National Credibility Roundtables Project works with news organizations across the country to address credibility issues. Its goal is to encourage widespread understanding of the public’s credibility concerns and to generate action to rebuild trust. The project collaborated with editors in every state on projects to:

• Publicly address complaints or questions from readers and communities.

• Meet with readers and sources to better understand the credibility issues.

• Find ways to develop more trusted news coverage.

In addition to collaborating with newsrooms to hold community conversations about journalism issues, the project:

• Helps create reader e-mail feedback networks that let editors get prompt public reaction that can inform news coverage and decisions on ethical questions.

• Issues Readers Speak reports. News organizations query their readers about such topics as the use of photos with disturbing content and why readers fail to report errors.

• Sponsors a teaching initiative in which college instructors and their students use the roundtables model as a learning tool.

The Credibility Roundtables Project is sponsored by Associated Press Managing Editors and funded by a grant from The Ford Foundation.