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It is important to be trustworthy in news, but also to appear trustworthy, Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni highlighted at the 2022 Reuters Memorial Lecture.

The lecture was followed by a panel moderated by our Chair Alan Rusbridger, with Noa Landau, a former Reuters Institute fellow and current deputy editor of Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and Scheherazade Daneshkhu, Director of Editorial Talent at the Financial Times.

For Alessandra, appearing trustworthy requires objectivity and transparency on the part of the journalist.

To achieve this, newsrooms need to be diverse to make sure they cover as many perspectives as there are in the world outside them. “The moment that journalists wade into the debate, they become part of the story,” she said. “That potentially undermines the trust in us, because if we show we have an agenda, then we become les