News-media roundup: Tue. webinar on newsroom mental health; how do news outlets regain the trust of the public? - Entrepreneur Generations

In an anaylitical and wide-ranging editorial, the Dallas Morning News offers some ideas for restoring public trust in the news media, which it blames partly on "the decline of local news organizations." The paper calls for mroe education of the public about how news media work, and "putting all publishers on more equal regulatory footing, whether they are social media companies or television stations or newspapers." That's an allusion to social media, which the editorial says have disconnected Americans from their news sources by becoming funnels and filters for fact-finding journalism. They have also blurred the distinctions beyween fact and opinion, and blurred the definition of journalism. Here's a little "elevator speech" that every news outlet could endorse, share, post and repost: "The news business pays for journalism, which practices a discpline of verification; we tell you how we know something, or we attribute it to someone, and we're mainly about fact, not opinion. Social media are mainly about opinion, and have little or no discipline or verification; on which sort of media should you rely for facts?" --Al Cross, professor and director, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky

A free webinar at noon ET Tuesday, Jan. 17 will help journalists address, improve and prioritize mental health in the newsroom. Panelists are Scott Blanchard, director of journalism at WITF in Harrisburg, Pa.; Sewell Chan, editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune; Dr. Elana Newman, research director at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma at the University of Tulsa; and Dave Seglins, an investigative journalist and well-being champion at CBC News. Naseem Miller, senior health editor at The Journalist's Resource, the webinar's sponsor, will moderate. Registration is required.

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