The News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project is an American innovative national program that is mobilizing journalists to help middle school and high school students sort fact from fiction in the digital age. The project...
View ArticleMedia Literacy 101: Power to the People
This post is the first in what we hope will be a series about how the public can become more news literate.
View ArticleNational Information Literacy Awareness Month (President Barack Obama)
President Barack Obama is calling upon Americans to “dedicate ourselves to increasing information literacy awareness so that all citizens understand its vital importance.” “An informed and educated...
View ArticleCheck Out the News: A Guide to Understanding the News and Making Good Choices
The LAMP is a non-profit organization creating a grassroots movement to reform and improve media. This is achieved through free media literacy workshops and public events for youth, parents and...
View ArticleConnecting Kids With News in Their Community
Not unlike kids in past generations, children today tend to learn news of their neighborhood, the nation, and the world by absorbing information from parents and other family members. Few of them pick...
View ArticleNews Literacy: Global Perspectives for the Newsroom and the Classroom
News Literacy: Global Perspectives for the Newsroom and the Classroom is conceived to help prepare future media practitioners (and citizens) to embrace new media environments that can simultaneously...
View ArticleKnow the News Remixer & News Quiz
Know the News is an online learning tool for journalism students and citizen journalists, exploring the issues that shape television news, including bias, authorship, authenticity, ethics, and media...
View ArticleMedia Literacy: An Avenue to Broader Civic Participation and Good Governance
Read a blog from Susan Moeller about Media Literacy’s benefits to society and global citizenship.
View ArticleHofstra University
The Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Hofstra University offers courses and programs in media literacy studies. Please see the link above for more information, and contact Dr. Paul...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens
COURSERA – starts April 3, 2017 About this course: Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent. As news consumers are bombarded with a constant stream of fake news, propaganda, hoaxes,...
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