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At a time when trust in the news is crawling out of historic lows, a new study from the provides promising interventions to promote readers鈥� trust in news stories. Researchers found that adding a box to news articles explaining the journalistic process significantly bolstered trust across 11 different attributes.

USA Today and the Tennessean, a regional U.S. newspaper, provided researchers with two stories from each paper to test out the efficacy of the explanation box with readers. Each media outlet randomly distributed a link with the experimental explanation and a link to the same story without the box to their respective audiences. The story USA Today provided discussed Amazon鈥檚 headquarters search, while the Tennessean article examined a viral Facebook post that gave the false impression that a veteran had been declined medical care.

The study found that the explanation box boosted trust in each story for 11 of 12 attributes that touch on different facets of trusting a news story. The explanation box especially helped strengthen trust for the 鈥渢elling the whole story鈥� and 鈥渢ransparency鈥� attributes when compared to participants who did not receive the box. The only attribute that did not have a significant impact from the box intervention was the 鈥渄oes not have an agenda鈥� factor.