APME National Credibility Roundtables Project
Provide this information to APME within one week after the Credibility Roundtable is held at your newspaper. You may fill out this online form and send via e-mail by clicking on the Submit button below. Or you may answer the questions on a separate sheet and mail to National Credibility Roundtables Project, Associated Press Managing Editors, The Associated Press, 450 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001. If you have questions, e-mail Credibility Roundtables staff at credibility@ap.org or call (212) 621-7502.

Name of Newspaper:
Editor directing roundtable project:
Name:
Title:
Email:
Roundtable facilitator:
Name:
Title:
Email:
Date and Place Roundtable was held:

Who took part in the roundtable? Please provide a list of participants,
who they are and how to reach them?

What were the key issues discussed at the roundtable?

Were some issues more important to readers, story subjects and sources?
If so, what were they?

Were there important points of agreement on coverage approaches or news philosophy
that would improve the newspaper's content and its credibility? What were they?

Were there points on which roundtable participants agreed to disagree?
Where were they?

Will the newspaper consider changes in its coverage of the roundtable issue,
or in its news philosophy, as a result of the discussions? What changes?

How has the newspaper informed its readers of the roundtable, what happened
there and what may occur because of the discussion?
Please send tearsheets of roundtable coverage.

Thank you for your help in reporting what happened at your roundtable. We've tried to keep paperwork to a minimum. Please do complete the forms in a timely fashion.

Knowing what was accomplished at your pioneering roundtable is important. Other editors will follow your path to improving credibility.

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