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Access to Trusted News & Information

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Overview

All Americans should have ready access to trusted news sources that provide high-quality, non-partisan, accurate, and reliable information and coverage of news at the local, state, and national levels. Through promoting high-quality and verifiable information and curtailing the intentional or unintentional spread of harmful and inaccurate information, Americans will be able to engage in democratic debate and disagreement on the basis of shared truths and understanding.

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Events

January 27, 2023

Summit for Local News & Journalism

Discussing how all Americans should have ready access to trusted news sources that provide high-quality, non-partisan, accurate, and reliable information and coverage of news at the local, state, and national levels.

Partner:

Partners:

The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands

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Elizabeth Green

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Initiatives

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Partners

Sarabeth Berman

CEO, American Journalism Project

Alix Fraser

Director, Council for Responsible Social Media, Issue One

Jessica Gonzalez

Co-CEO, Free Press

Elizabeth Green

CEO and Co-Founder, Chalkbeat

Steven Waldman

Founder, Rebuild Local News

Activity

Newspapers are disappearing where democracy needs them most

Local news is the oxygen of democracy, the most trusted source for the most essential information, and we’ve long known why dying newsrooms damage communities.

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By Nancy Gibbs

Press

You're Being Fed Lies: How Americans Can Find Truth in the Age of Misinformation

Just as young people should be taught coding, they must be taught the decoding of news and information as a prerequisite of informed citizenship.

December 9, 2021

Associated Press

PRESS RELEASE: New Research Shows Most Voters Say American Democracy Faces ‘Very Serious Threats,’ and Access to Trusted News and Information is the Way Forward

The national voter survey and focus groups, commissioned by More Perfect, explored voter opinions on the concerns, health and improvement of democracy.

November 4, 2022

Report from Sunnylands: Revitalizing Local News with New Capital, Creativity, and Collective Action

A gathering of current and prospective journalism funders and practitioners seeks to reinvent local news as civic information in service of

February 2, 2023

Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP

Events

January 27, 2023

Summit for Local News & Journalism

Discussing how all Americans should have ready access to trusted news sources that provide high-quality, non-partisan, accurate, and reliable information and coverage of news at the local, state, and national levels.

Partner:

Partners:

The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands

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Elizabeth Green

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Initiatives

This goal does not yet have initiatives associated with it.