About me

After almost 20 years as a working journalist, including 12 as an accidental academic, I now run a project called Trusting News, which empowers journalists to actively earn trust and demonstrate their credibility.

I used to do quite a bit of work as a consultant, trainer and professor, helping journalists, students and organizations grow their understanding of audience strategies and measurement of success. This website is leftover from those days and is in large part an archive of my early days studying audience and community engagement, dating back to 2010.

GET IN TOUCH: Email me at joy@TrustingNews,.org. You can also find me on LinkedIn.

I also used to be the director of community outreach at the Columbia Missourian, the community newspaper run by faculty and staffed by students at the Missouri School of Journalism. For the 12 years I was there, I was also a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where I taught a number of topics including Participatory Journalism, Multimedia Planning and Design, and News Design. I love teaching and was fortunate to get so much experience with it while still making daily journalism my top priority.