On April 11, the News Literacy Project will be featured on AOL’s homepage as part of its “cause module” program. This cause-marketing strategy connects the public to nonprofits and other public-service efforts.
AOL sets aside space on its homepage daily for a vetted charity or nonprofit that offers a message with national appeal.
The NLP cause module will expose the project’s mission to a large number of visitors to AOL.com and enable them to make online donations. The cause module averages between 4,000 and 7,000 clicks a day, according to AOL.
The NLP cause module will run for 24 hours...
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Univision Communications Inc., the country’s leading media company serving the Hispanic community, has joined the News Literacy Project as a participating organization.
“We are honored to partner with the News Literacy Project and leverage our world-class Univision News organization to help students across the country understand the importance and value of news consumption in their educational development,” said Isaac Lee, Univision’s president of news. “This collaboration extends our mission of informing, entertaining and empowering our community.”
The company’s assets include Univision...
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WTOP, an all-news radio station in Washington, D.C., has joined the News Literacy Project, making it the first radio station and the 19th news organization to participate.
“In this new media age, the old, basic tenets of journalism are as important as ever,” said Mike McMearty, news director of WTOP. “If the News Literacy Project can instill the values of objective, fact-based journalism into the minds of our young students, then the staff at WTOP Radio can only stand and applaud the effort.”
WTOP (103.5 FM in the Washington area) joins The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, the...
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Twenty-five journalism students from Northside College Prep High School in Chicago attended a day-long news literacy seminar at the Chicago bureau of the Associated Press on March 2. The series of lectures, workshops and discussions was organized by the News Literacy Project and two of its volunteer journalists on the AP staff, assistant central editor Anna Johnson and central region editor David Scott.
After giving the students a tour of the newsroom, Johnson spoke about her experiences covering the 2009 presidential elections in Iran. She noted that the widespread media blackout while...
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A report in the January/February issue of Bethesda Magazine praises the role of the News Literacy Project at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.
Whitman was the site of one of NLP’s first three pilot programs, and the project is now in its third year at the school. It will reach more than 350 students in AP government and 11th-grade English classes this school year.
The project also held a series of three public events featuring prominent journalists and other public figures at Whitman last year. More than 400 adults and students attended each of the Fall Forum presentations.
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The News Literacy Project has hired two staff members to build its capacity, strengthen its educational and digital programs, and expand in New York City.
Whitney Allgood will be the project’s first chief of staff. She will oversee day-to-day operations and help to enhance NLP’s curriculum materials, assessment processes and educational model.
Darragh Worland, a journalist and multimedia educator and consultant, is the project’s second New York program coordinator. She will work to expand NLP in New York City schools and with other partners and assist with video and other multimedia...
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