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Joy Mayer

@mayerjoy.bsky.social

Executive director of Trusting News. It’s up to journalists to earn trust, not expect or demand it.

875 Followers  |  661 Following  |  30 Posts  |  Joined: 09.11.2024  |  1.7264

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This thread is SO on brand for Losowsky ... using his award to draw attention to work HE admires. So generative. So classy. So community focused.

15.09.2025 13:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Explain your goals, process and integrity when covering mass shootings The news is tragic, and it’s unfolding in an all-too-familiar way. Innocent people have died. Society tries to make sense of the shooter’s motivation and mindset. People and organizations express outr...

I'm sad every time I have cause to share this @trustingnews.bsky.social resource around covering mass shootings. trustingnews.org/explain-goal...

27.08.2025 20:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'm so excited to have these live. Huge thanks to the team at @globalpress.bsky.social.

16.07.2025 16:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Training | Sunlight Research Join Sunlight Research Center for in-depth investigative reporting workshops designed to help journalists build their reporting skillsets.

Anyone's welcome at a free training I'm doing with @sunlightresearch.bsky.social on Friday. We'll talk about how to earn trust through transparent reporting practices. www.sunlightresearch.net/research-tra...

21.05.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I'm looking forward to my first @mediaimpactfunders.bsky.social gathering, and to this conversation.

19.05.2025 18:27 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Great food for thought here from @mayerjoy.bsky.social of @trustingnews.bsky.social.

"What is preventing people from accessing what you’re doing, from understanding what you’re doing, and from finding what you’re doing credible?"

23.04.2025 18:16 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks, Garvin!

24.04.2025 20:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our path forward with earning trust is to get really curious about that gap and explore with *humility* what we can do to shrink it.

27.03.2025 16:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks to @mbolden.bsky.social for moderating a fun discussion at #ISOJ25 today. My thesis: Journalists need to understand who feels neglected or misrepresented by their journalism AND who has trouble *hearing* their journalism because it seems to come from an unrelatable or unuseful place.

27.03.2025 16:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How journalists can get clear about their funding and ownership. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Trust is essential for journalists, but it’s also key to people’s willingness to pay for the news. If they think your news organization isn’t trustworthy, they’re unlikely to support it with their dol...

A lot of people assume money drives news decisions — that we chase clicks, squash news our owners/publishers don’t want us to publish, etc. If you have ever wondered how to respond to complaints like that, come to our @trustingnews.bsky.social webinar on March 20. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

13.03.2025 18:49 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'm so lucky to work with this group of smart folks.

06.03.2025 22:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you're in NC, join us next week for the @nclocal.bsky.social news workshop. I'm leading a session for @trustingnews.bsky.social on trust in an era of news avoidance, and the program is PACKED with insightful folks. www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-nc-ne...

05.03.2025 22:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Dignity Index: Scoring political speech, making change. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Join Hearken for a presentation and Q&A with Tami Pyfer of The Dignity Index, an initiative aimed at changing the way we think about and speak to others with whom we disagree. The Dignity Index is an ...

How do we talk *to* and *about* people we disagree with? And how should journalists be thinking about that? I'm looking forward to lessons from this conversation. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

04.03.2025 20:41 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This work might be tough, but it feels important.

03.03.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ha ha! Good times!

25.02.2025 22:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tomorrow, we'll be talking about who feels well-represented by our journalism and who doesn't. And how better conversations in the newsroom (across power dynamics!) could help us reflect and reach more people. Join us. bit.ly/dimensionstn

25.02.2025 16:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 Do feel comfortable speaking up, sharing your perspective and challenging assumptions in your newsroom? Too often, the risk isn't worth whatever benefit.

📢 Join @mayerjoy.bsky.social for this free training on fostering healthy dissent in your newsroom.

Register now. ⬇️
bit.ly/dimensionstn

24.02.2025 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Strengthen your coverage through honest newsroom conversation and dissent. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meetin... Does your newsroom encourage staffers to speak their mind, share their perspective and challenge each other’s assumptions? Newsrooms say they value diversity in both views and lived experiences. But t...

How comfortable does your newsroom staff feel challenging each other's assumptions? How can your routines and conversations involve to invite more dissent — in service of more accurate, nuanced coverage? Join @trustingnews.bsky.social on Wednesday to talk about it. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

24.02.2025 16:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now Entry submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. This is the fifth year for our annual awards program, and every year we’re amazed by the quality and variety of work ent...

🥁 It's that time of year again... We know you've all been waiting for it... Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! 🎉

13.02.2025 16:22 — 👍 123    🔁 89    💬 3    📌 18

Thanks, Carrie!

10.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Journalist'sToolbox.AI: AI mobile apps Look at journalism's future, not its past.

Some new #AI resources on Journalist's Toolbox AI™

- AI mobile apps: https://buff.ly/41Qfn4v

- AI agents: https://buff.ly/3Dz44nt

01.02.2025 15:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is so great. Please share this wisdom from @lexroman.com and @lizkellynelson.com far and wide.

14.01.2025 17:55 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

A note to my Jan. 2 self: Yes, every incomplete task from December awaits your @rememberthemilk.bsky.social task list and nudged inbox today. No, you do not need to accomplish them all today. Yes, it is reasonable to be frustrated with you Dec. 20 self. She made unkind decisions.

20.12.2024 14:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Focusing on what people actually need "For too long, newsrooms have created content based on their own routines, preferences, and platforms, churning out long stories or endless updates without really thinking about what the audience want...

A @trustingnews.bsky.social -themed Nieman prediction from Lynn Walsh. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/focu...

18.12.2024 21:49 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Last day to participate! ~5 minutes could get you a $50 gift card. (I'm sending them tomorrow!)

18.12.2024 19:47 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Any creator journos out there primarily working on TikTok? DM me if you want to talk about your plan B if (when) TikTok is banned in the U.S.

16.12.2024 17:04 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Imagine all the stress that will go away if I don't see a huge to do list every time I open my laptop!

(But yes, you're right. Alas.)

07.12.2024 00:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm going to go ahead and commit to something bold: When I sign off for the holidays in two weeks, I will close any Chrome tabs I have been meaning to read but have not yet gotten to.

06.12.2024 22:33 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks, Simon. 😅

25.11.2024 14:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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