Events
Making Sense of Today's News in an AI Driven World
Featuring: Sally Lehrman
July 22, 2026 - 12 pm ET (Virtual)
Trust Dialogue
News helps us understand the world, hold leaders accountable, and choose paths toward shared prosperity. But the flood of unreliable information online is driving people – maybe even you - away from news, with severe consequences for democracy.
Join us on Wednesday, July 22 at 12:00 p.m. ET for a Trust Dialogue featuring Sally Lehrman, founder of the Trust Project and Peabody Award-winning journalist, for a conversation on the factors undermining access to reliable news and how to rebuild trust and value in a news landscape confronting deep structural challenges. Together, we'll explore why the Trust Project's Trust Indicators® remain as important as ever globally, how transparency helps people identify credible information, and some practical takeaways to manage the volume and uncertainty.
Lehrman is an award-winning journalist specializing in science and medicine. Her reporting has earned a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a John S. Knight Fellowship, and numerous other honors. Her work has been published in Scientific American, Nature, Health, and featured in several public radio documentary series distributed by NPR.
Lehrman was recognized with a Gold Globee Award as Female Achiever/Communicator of the Year and named one of MediaShift's Top 20 Digital Innovators. She is the author of News in a New America, which advocates for a more inclusive U.S. news media, and co-editor of Reporting Inequality: Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity (2018). She is also affiliated with the UC Santa Cruz Center for Science & Justice.
Past Events
Spring Symposium
March 5, 2026
Beyond the Noise II: Building Common Infrastructure for Information Quality
USC Capital Campus - Washington D.C.
America faces a critical infrastructure failure in our information ecosystem that threatens national security, economic stability, and democratic governance. With 80% of online content now AI-generated and traditional gatekeepers weakened, we lack the foundational systems needed to navigate information confidently at the speed and scale democracy requires.
This gathering created coordination across the fragmented efforts to build information quality infrastructure.
Co-hosted by TIM, University of Southern California Capital Campus and the Institute for Humane Studies