Only about 6 in 10 Americans say they have some or a lot of trust national news organizations, according to Pew Research Center. It's a significant departure from the days when Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in America.
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Why is public faith in the news waning and what can journalists do to save it? Media experts weighed in on Greater Boston.
Jacquetta Van Zandt, the host of the Politics and Prosecco Videocast, and Joanna Weiss, editor-in-chief of Experience Magazine pointed to a large and expansive digital media landscape today compared to the select few television news outlets of the past.
"We have a landscape that is completely splintered, and because of economics, because of politics, you can dial into the news that matches your political point of view and you don't have to aware of any other point of view even," Weiss said.
Van Zandt said digging yourself out of conspiracy theories and other sources of misinformation in media means relying on your own moral compass. But not all news consumers will put in the work to find the best sources of information, and it can depend on your generation.
"We don't get all of our information on social media, we turn to CNN and we turn to HLN and MSNBC, and some of us even turn to FOX. Not me," Van Zandt said, speaking about the millennial generation's news consumption habits.
Watch: Four decades after Walter Cronkite, trust in the media is plummeting. Can journalists win it back?
