Mark Payton

Beware the Digital Whiteboard | WIRED wired.com/story/beware-t…

I think about this Tom Waits story all the time.

Many congrats to The Trust Project for winning the Best Trust Initiative in this year's WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Americas. I'm proud as punch to have played a small role in helping the initiative over the last four years. wan-ifra.org/2023/05/winner…

Inflation in the UK is uncomfortably high at the moment - 5.1% and rising. Yet it's worth noting if the UK Consumer Price Index (CPI) had grown at 2% a year since Bank of England independence in 1997, as per the mandate, the price level today would bang in line, not over.... 🧵

Editorial in a Lancet journal about the huge spike in alcohol-related deaths during lockdown proves that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Thanks to my role on the @IpsoNews Complaints Committee, I saw Covid's arrival from a very different perspective... here's the Organisation's report on the state of UK media's pandemic reporting...

@yusufcodes Yup.

Donald Sutherland is 86 today so this seems as good a time as any to remind people that this is exactly how you should point anything out to people. Or to give directions to strangers.

Public News Service Joins the Trust Project to Support Transparency, Accuracy in Journalism pnsne.ws/3hFqcPD

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Three years ago, my former boss (who used to work for Look-In back in the day) challenged me to create a spoof Look-In cover...

I'm proud to have helped with the first ever @HopeClassicUK virtual event - an All-Star Celebrity Auction where you can bid to meet a sporting or TV hero. Head to: app.galabid.com/pitstopwithast…

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New on HTFP Jobs: @IpsoNews is looking for an editorial member of its Complaints Committee with recent senior experience in regional newspapers, based London holdthefrontpage.co.uk/jobsboard/view…

The latest INMA report from @_trustproject offers resource suggestions for companies working to build and increase audience trust. ow.ly/5Fz550DeZ7b @wearehearken @Pia_Frey @opinary @losowsky @dnbornstein @soljourno @ConstructiveIn @ComplicatingN @MaynardInst

Dead chuffed to have played a small part in helping Ipsos MORI bring this vital report on trust in media to life: ipsos.com/sites/default/…

The saddest news - Andy was an extraordinary professional, and a brilliant human being. I was lucky to have known you.

Proud to announce our new cohorts - newsrooms in Argentina, Peru, the U.S., the U.K. and Canada committed to increase transparency and trust in the news. Learn more about how - thetrustproject.org/LAUNCH20

'You are, as always, a knackered parrot...'.