Archives from January 2009
Louise Dufresne, a member of the News Literacy Project’s youth advisory committee, has a letter to the editor in the Jan. 30 editions of The New York Times. She writes that "failing newspapers are a reflection of our failure to keep my generation interested in issues of national and international importance."
Louise is a senior at St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Del., and edits the school newspaper, The Cardinal.
Her letter was written in response to a Jan. 27 op-ed in the Times that suggested saving endangered newspapers by turning them into "nonprofit, endowed institutions—like colleges...
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James Rainey, the Los Angeles Times media columnist, has applauded the News Literacy Project. In his column on Jan. 11,"Write away, student journalists," Rainey wrote: "The founder of the News Literacy Project thinks the explosion of news on the Internet makes this a time when students need more, not less, understanding of how to find the truth. Beginning next month with pilot efforts in New York and Maryland, the project will send professional journalists to teach middle and high school students how to `distinguish verified information from raw messages, spin, gossip and opinion,’ said...
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ABC News and the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” are the News Literacy Project’s first two participating broadcast news organizations. Each has endorsed the project and given its journalists the opportunity to volunteer in the classroom. They join The New York Times and USA Today in supporting the project.
Veteran ABC News correspondent Bill Blakemore and senior Justice Department reporter Pierre Thomas are among a growing number of project fellows. “60 Minutes” producers, editors and other staffers in New York and Washington have enrolled with the project as well.
“It is more important...
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The News Literacy Project is pleased to announce that the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a leader in providing training that promotes excellence and integrity in journalism, has become its new partner and administrative home.
Poynter will help the project achieve its goal of building a national program that brings journalists into middle schools and high schools to help students sort fact from fiction in the digital age. It will serve as the nonprofit umbrella organization for the News Literacy Project by providing bookkeeping, payroll, insurance, auditing and other financial...
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The News Literacy Project is pleased to welcome Melissa Nicolardi, a former New York City public school teacher and a documentary filmmaker, as New York program coordinator. Melissa was a founding member of the School for Human Rights in Brooklyn, N.Y. She received a Master’s of Science in Teaching from Pace University as part of the New York City Teaching Fellows program and is a candidate for an M.F.A. in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, concentrating in documentary production.
An alumna of the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teachers Program, Melissa has presented at the U.S....
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