by Fabrice Florin, executive director and founder, NewsTrust.net
Today, I'd like to share with you a helpful diagram that helps us visualize NewsTrust's challenges and opportunities in the rapidly changing news media landscape. In coming weeks, we will feature on this blog more charts and diagrams about some of the solutions we aim to provide with our non-profit service.
This first diagram provides useful context about NewsTrust's mission, which is to help people find and share quality journalism online, so they can make more informed decisions as citizens.
The recent explosion of new media outlets on the web, along with the consolidation of big media and the decline of public trust, are creating serious problems for democracy, such as information overload, misinformation, mistrust and civic apathy (see our full diagram).
Every day, hundreds of thousands of news stories and opinions are released on the Internet by wire services, newspapers, TV, radio, magazines, blogs and websites. An increasingly frustrated public struggles daily to assess their credibility, without effective tools to filter the best reporting, evaluate information quality and share trusted content with other citizens.
Here at NewsTrust, we aim to offer a practical and sustainable solution to address these issues, by providing a unique set of news filters, news literacy tools, and a trust network that invites civic engagement.
Next week, we will feature another diagram to help us visualize our challenges and opportunities in this field.
To preview some of our other slides and find out more about NewsTrust, check our NewsTrust Slides (PDF) (or download our PowerPoint)
As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts about our community initiative, and encourage you to add your two cents in the comments below.
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