Trust #2: Product ratings you can believe

Here are some tools that help consumers sort through misleading marketing noise This post originally appeared in the Sept. 5, 2024, Your News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. Trustworthy sources. You may remember that my last newsletter talked about trust being in short supply these days. […]

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Wikipedia is the greatest online service created in the internet age. And it’s not for sale.

It’s free, global, non-profit, and crowd-sourced; it strives for a neutral stance in a media world filled with trolls, polarization, and automated disinformation James Breiner The value of trust It’s hard to find information you can trust these days. Powerful algorithm-driven marketing machines flood us with news and reviews about everything from pizza to politics, […]

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Leadership 2: Be impeccable with your word

Our words plant seeds in people’s minds that can do great good or cause great harm This is the second of a series about leadership. This skill is difficult to teach. Some of it relies on talent. Leaders aren’t necessarily extroverts. Parents, teachers, bosses all are put into positions of leadership. What can help you […]

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Reasons for optimism #11: A Spanish watchdog

If any publication shows the public demand for trustworthy journalism, it’s this one Ignacio Escolar and his colleagues at elDiario.es have succeeded in producing high-quality journalism “in spite of everything” for the past 10 years. Those words are in fact part of the slogan of the publication he co-founded in Spain, elDiario.es: “Journalism in spite […]

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