Bloomberg has joined the News Literacy Project as a participant, becoming the 15th news organization to enlist in the growing national effort to help middle school and high school students sort fact from fiction in a digital world.
“We believe in the future of fact-driven news in a world where people are bombarded with information,” said Mike Tackett, Bloomberg’s Washington bureau chief and managing editor. “This program is training a new generation of students to appreciate quality journalism and consume and create credible information.”
Bloomberg, which is headquartered in New York...
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The News Literacy Project has been awarded a $150,000 challenge grant from the Ford Foundation in recognition of NLP’s pioneering work to give students the ability to discern credible information in the digital age.
“The Ford Foundation is pleased to support the work of the News Literacy Project to equip students with the critical skills to judge the integrity of the vast amounts of news and information on the Web. This work is fundamental to a functioning democracy, which needs active and informed citizens,” said Calvin Sims, the Ford Foundation’s program officer for news media and...
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News literacy is crucial to sustaining a healthy democracy, according to an op-ed column co-authored by News Literacy Project executive director Alan C. Miller and published April 13, 2010 in USA Today, the nation’s largest general-circulation newspaper.
“With actual news, and items that look suspiciously like news, coming at us all day from a variety of outlets, how do we know what to trust?” asks the article, which appeared in almost 1.9 million papers distributed nationwide and on USA Today’s website.
“How do we distinguish credible information from raw information,...
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The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has joined the News Literacy Project as the 14th news organization to enroll in the national effort to help middle school and high school students become more frequent consumers and creators of credible information.
The Pulitzer Center is an innovative non-profit leader in supporting the independent international journalism that U.S. media organizations are increasingly less able to undertake. The Center focuses on underreported topics, promoting high-quality international reporting and creating platforms that reach broad and diverse audiences. Reports...
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Building on a successful pilot program in late 2009, the News Literacy Project is growing in Chicago this year, expanding its presence in the pilot school and adding two new middle schools. It is now active in extended-day programs as well as in the classroom.
After completing a 6th-grade pilot at the Marquette School in December, the project plans to also work with 7th- and 8th-grade students there this spring. The two new schools are the Calumet campus of Perspectives Charter Schools and the Reavis School in the Grand Boulevard community.
All three Chicago schools are working with...
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We are pleased to present the following report on the News Literacy Project’s first year of operations in the classroom.
Eleven months after launching our inaugural pilot, we look back upon a year of extraordinary progress. We now have programs under way in New York City, Bethesda, Md., and Chicago and plans for expansion in the months ahead.
In the past year, we:
* REACHED more than 1,200 students in six middle schools and high schools and worked with 16 history, government and English teachers in three regions;
* ENGAGED more than 70 volunteer journalists in our classroom and...
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