Joy Mayer
Director, Trusting News
Group: adjunct, WLA-Past-Instructors
Joy Mayer is the director of Trusting News, a project that trains journalists to demonstrate credibility and earn trust in their day-to-day work. She is an adjunct faculty member at The Poynter Institute and community manager for Gather, a platform dedicated to engaged journalism. She spent 12 years teaching at the Missouri School of Journalism, where she created an engagement curriculum and a community outreach team in the newsroom of the Columbia Missourian and also taught web design and print design.