What is the News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project is an innovative national program to mobilize journalists to help middle and high school students sort fact from fiction in the digital age.
The project’s primary aim is to give students the tools to be smarter and more frequent consumers and creators of credible …
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New York Times is First Participating News Organization
Nov 25, 2008 | Post a comment on this entryThe New York Times is the News Literacy Project’s first participating news organization. The Times has endorsed the project, posted an internal announcement giving the paper’s journalists the opportunity to volunteer in the classroom, and is helping the project recruit former Times reporters and editors to participate in its after-school program. It has also agreed to provide copies of the paper …
Read MoreHoward Gardner and Dave Jones Join the News…
Nov 23, 2008 | Post a comment on this entryHoward Gardner, a prominent Harvard educator, and Dave Jones, a former senior editor at the New York Times, have joined the News Literacy Project’s advisory committee.
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and the author of over 20 books that have been translated into 27 languages. He is best …
Read MoreBob Jervis Will Develop Curriculum for the News…
Nov 21, 2008 | Post a comment on this entryThe News Literacy Project is pleased to announce that Bob Jervis, the former coordinator of social studies for the Anne Arundel County (Md.) Public Schools, will be its curriculum developer. Bob was responsible for developing the county schools’ social studies curriculum for kindergarten through 12th grade. After retiring in 2001, he spent five years with the Maryland State Department of …
Read MoreAlan Miller Addresses Knight Commission on News Literacy
Nov 20, 2008 | Post a comment on this entryAlan C. Miller, the News Literacy Project’s founder and executive director, discussed news literacy in the classroom—and the project’s plans to provide it—in remarks to the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. He did so as part of a panel on "Information, Engagement, and Democracy at the Community Level" at the commission’s Nov. 17 meeting, held in the Harold …
Read MoreVivian Schiller Appointed President and CEO of NPR
Nov 20, 2008 | Post a comment on this entryVivian Schiller, who chairs the News Literacy Project board, will become president and CEO of National Public Radio on Jan. 5. She will move over from the New York Times, where she has been senior vice president and general manager of NYTimes.com. She previously served as senior vice president and general manager of the Discovery Times Channel and senior vice president of CNN Productions.
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Read MoreFacing History School Is Latest News Literacy Project…
Nov 8, 2008 | Post a comment on this entryThe News Literacy Project is pleased to announce that our second New York City pilot will be with the Facing History School, a small, innovative, non-charter public high school on Manhattan’s West Side. The school, which was founded in 2005 and will graduate its first senior class in 2009, focuses on understanding history through the lives of those who lived it, historical texts and community …
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