Ethics & Trust

Poynter's Coverage of Ethics & Trust

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Trump shooting fuels reflection for journalists who covered Gabby Giffords shooting

The scene following Donald Trump’s rally Saturday in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

TV news coverage of the Trump rally shooting was repetitive — and responsible

A woman walks along a path in a deserted field Zvimba, rural Zimbabwe, Saturday, June, 26, 2021. A report from Global Press and Media Impact Funders found that U.S. readers prefer reporting on topics such as drought in Zimbabwe when they are written by local journalists and focus on solutions.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

What will get Americans interested in international news?

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How and why we should bring the living room into our newsrooms

Members of the team that created an AI tool called Omni present their idea to a panel of judges at Poynter's Summit on AI, Ethics and Journalism in June. Six teams participated in a "hackathon" to create new products that used AI ethically. Credit: Alex Smyntyna/Poynter.

The assignment: Build AI tools for journalists – and make ethics job one

A phone perched on a car plays a simultaneous translation into Spanish as the first general election debate of the 2024 season between U.S. President Joe Biden and his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, is projected on a giant outdoor screen at the Nite Owl drive-in theater, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

After the debate, plenty of insider texts but little transparency among political reporters