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The Day in New London, Conn. has partnered with Trusting News (a project of the American Press Institute and the Missouri School of Journalism's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute) to launch a Trust Committee within the newsroom.

The committee’s goals are to help the newspaper’s audience better understand who they are, what they do and why, and discover ways to be more responsive and accessible to their audience. The Day’s multimedia director Peter Huoppi, who sought out the partnership with Trusting News, is chairing the Trust Committee.

As the newspaper undertakes this challenge, it also invites its audience to ask questions and make suggestions by chatting with the newsroom online, emailing them, or giving them a call. In the coming months, the company will share how the newsroom works through a column, social media, and the paper’s podcast, “The Storyline,” which discusses top stories of the day.

When asked why trust is so crucial at this moment in time, Huoppi told The Day’s engagement editor Karen Florin in the committee’s announcement, “The news media landscape has changed a lot…with 24-hour cable news, talk radio and social media, people have access to more choices, and the news you find in those places is often clouded by opinion and bias, both real and perceived. I think people see what’s happening at explicitly partisan cable news outlets and assume that the same things happen in their local newsroom.”

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