#public-trust

#public-trust

The most recent Engaged Journalism Exchange - a convening of journalism practitioners, funders, and scholars in San Francisco over the summer - began with Anita Varma describing how she'd been the target of a disinformation campaign, a home vandalism, and doxxing during the several years she's been leading the Solidarity Journalism Initiative as an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin.

Only 9% of Americans are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini as a news source, with 2% using AI to get news often, 7% sometimes, 16% rarely, and 75% never, Pew found. Even those who do use it for news are having trouble trusting it. A third of those who use AI as a news source say it's difficult to distinguish what is true from false. The largest share of respondents, 42%, is not sure whether it's determinable.

In the open letter, 37 county sheriffs said a mid-cycle redistricting effort, in which the proposed congressional maps were redrawn behind closed doors as part of a partisan effort to advantage California Democrats in the 2026 congressional elections, not only would undermine the will of voters, but also would erode public trust in government. They said the effort disenfranchises voters.

Kenvue, the company behind the household brand, at least has a playbook to turn to for guidance. That's because Tylenol's original owner, Johnson & Johnson, developed it decades ago after seven people in the Chicago area died from taking its capsules because someone had laced them with potassium cyanide. The 1982 unsolved mystery became known as the " Tylenol murders." J&J's handling of the incident not only saved the brand - and protected consumers from future tragedy - but also set the gold standard for crisis management that is still taught in business schools.

Justice Barrett plays an extraordinarily powerful role on the court, as part of the three-member fulcrum whose votes often decide cases, and her book is billed as a rare look inside her work. But her book, and the publicity events, may also draw attention for all she doesn't answer. In 'Listening to the Law,' she does not grapple with the paradox of her position: Though Justice Barrett has clinched a 50-year conservative legal revolution, overturning precedents on abortio

Five years ago we were in the throes of the Covid pandemic. Many businesses were shuttered, their employees working from home or online. Essential workers were putting their lives at risk. Most schools had gone to remote learning. Hospitals were overwhelmed and bodies were literally piling up. By the end of September 2020, 200,000 Americans had died from the virus which would eventually take more than one million lives in this country alone.

The western states envision issuing guidelines they said would be driven by evidence-based recommendations from national medical organizations. The effort also includes releasing shared principles on how to build public trust in vaccines, they said. The move comes after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. effectively restricted COVID-19 vaccines to high-risk groups, limiting access for healthy children or healthy pregnant women.

After nearly five decades, Dan Balz is retiring from The Washington Post, where he covered 12 elections and eight presidencies as a political correspondent. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg asks Balz about the state of American democracy today, and how he's seen the landscape of politics change. "Over the course of 50 years that I've been doing this, I think that the most important shift," Balz said last night, is that "politics has gotten tougher, coarser, and meaner."

A lack of sanctions for poor performance and the absence of effective management led to a culture to take root in roads policing units whereby some gardaí deliberately avoided traffic offences.

"Juan Jose Pesina, a 32-year-old Menifee resident, was also booked into the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center in French Valley on suspicion of sodomy, sexual battery and oral copulation by force, all felonies."

Labour MP Mark Sewards has created an AI version of himself to engage constituents, aiming to enhance communication and service availability. However, concerns arise about potential disconnect.

The Charity Commission has condemned all parties to the dispute for allowing it to play out publicly, severely affecting the charity's reputation and public trust.

Washington argued that these actions undermined public trust, blurred the line between public service and private advocacy, and went beyond what's considered acceptable personal use of city resources.

According to the report, 57 percent of Americans trust nonprofits to 'do what is right.' This far exceeds the level of trust in other institutions, including small business, the news media, and federal government.

"Nonprofits are tax-exempt organizations that must comply with rules of financial transparency and public accountability due to their missions of public social trust."

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from office, initiating a formal removal hearing scheduled for Aug. 18-29.

"There is no such thing as only one dream in America. Our dreams exist beyond borders, right? I am reconnecting with my roots in Mexico, rediscovering my country, something I was never able to do before."

The high street shop fronts are seen as connecting various domestic problems in Britain, as illegal cigarette sales are tied to serious organized crime and undermine public trust in authorities.

"If you are still conducting active investigations and interviews in the 10th or 11th month, witnesses or subject officers may have trouble recollecting what happened. If the case is open for almost a year, it doesn't give complaining witnesses a lot of confidence that they're complaint is being taken seriously."

Trust is hard to build and easy to lose, Mawakana tells TIME. We've learned the amount of humility needed: Ultimately, it's the riders who are going to decide.

The resolution of this case should primarily be forward-facing. It is about preventing similar misconduct from recurring in the future, with the consequent damage to trust and confidence in the police.

"The unprecedented firing of the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismantles a process that has built trust in vaccination across America."

One of the biggest mysteries in Westminster surrounds the inability of politicians of all parties to apologise. Politicians would rather die than apologise.

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