Joy Mayer

Founder and Executive Director, Trusting News

At ISOJ 2025, Joy is a speaker on the panel “How to rebuild trust in journalism after years of attacks and declines in credibility,” happening on Thursday, March 27, at 9:45 a.m.

Joy Mayer is the founder and executive director of Trusting News, a project that studies how people decide what news to trust and helps journalists and the public understand each other. She and her team train newsrooms on strategies for demonstrating credibility and actively earning trust. She launched Trusting News in 2016 after a 20-year career in newsrooms and as a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. She lives in Sarasota, Florida.