4. Reader one
Younger
Digital
News literate
Challenge: format,
platform, how do you
maintain attention without
major events (debates, etc.)
Low info (or limited sources)
Low trust/skepticism
More analog
Challenge: building trust
AND format/delivery. People
don’t trust government +
institutions — who DO they
trust?
Reader two
5. Reader one
What’s been done?
• Snapchat
• Live fact checking
• Alexa
• Browser plug-ins
Reader two
What’s been done?
•Collaborations with
local news
•(national <—> local)
6. What else could be done?
• Talk radio segment (answering listener questions)
• Church subscription services: get community orgs talking about truth ⛪
• Using family structure to engage with media/civic literacy
• Surfacing different, competing sources
• Include what’s wrong *and* what’s right
• Peer-to-peer model (like a fact-check bookclub) "
• Targeted ads on Google
• Media literacy as part of buying technology
• Personalizing the fact check. Why does this matter to ME?
• Consumer knowledge, mythbusting
• Email is powerful
• How can we make it more shareable, bite size
• Meme-ifying fact checking, humor
7. What else could be done?
• Engaging with readers, acknowledging people who interact
• Empowering people to ask questions — gives readers a voice (send
video clip, or voicemail)
• Make it creative, generative
• The objective might be fact checking, but it isn’t necessarily the
medium (games, creativity, etc.)
• High school assemblies on truth, media literacy
• Bar trivia night ! — prioritizing fun
• Flip-a-friend campaign
8. YOUR local conservative talk show
TONIGHT: 5 pm Channel 101.3
HOST: Your favorite hometown host Roger “RED”
Smith
GUEST: FOX News contributor Jane Stone
Pastor Aaron Johnson
TOPIC: Manufacturing jobs -- Where did they go?? Are
they here?? WHERE??