We’ve worked with partner newsrooms to create and refine a tool for journalists — a checklist designed to make room in the editing process for journalists to be intentional about:
- examining how their story might be perceived by people with different values and experiences
- identifying what they are communicating to their audience intentionally or unintentionally about how they see an issue
- considering including enhanced transparency about their goals and process
What this guide is not
The goal of the checklist is NOT to make all content palatable to all people. That’s not possible or desirable. Some people will not find your coverage fair no matter what you do. And some are seeking confirmation bias to such an extent that anything that does not confirm THEIR worldview feels biased, not neutral.
Remarkable….