Archives from March 2009
The News Literacy Project is the focus of a lengthy report in Teacher Magazine, an online publication that is part of the Education Week group.
The article, titled "News You Can Use," focuses on the project’s kickoff and the first two weeks of its pilot at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md. It extensively quotes Mark Halperin, the editor-at-large and a senior political analyst at Time magazine, and Pierre Thomas, senior Justice Department correspondent for ABC News, who were featured at the kickoff event, along with several journalists who made presentations to AP government...
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The publisher of The New York Times, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., praised the News Literacy Project last week for teaching “an invaluable lesson” by steering students to journalism that provides context and reassurance amid the country’s current economic turmoil.
Sulzberger’s comments came during his keynote address at the nation’s first conference on news literacy, held March 11-13 at Stony Brook University on Long Island. The Times became the News Literacy Project’s first participating news organization in November, and more than 20 current and former journalists from the paper...
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National Public Radio has joined the News Literacy Project as a participating news organization – expanding the journalistic reach of the program that is helping students in middle schools and high schools learn how to separate fact from fiction in the digital age.
“We at NPR believe it is vital to help young people become discerning media consumers,” NPR President Vivian Schiller said. “The skills the News Literacy Project is bringing into the classroom are vital to ensuring an informed citizenry, which is the bedrock of a vibrant democracy. We are delighted to participate.”
Schiller also...
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Five New York Times journalists and former CNN financial editor Myron Kandel are the News Literacy Project’s first participants in an after-school apprenticeship program in partnership with Citizen Schools.
The journalists are working with a dozen middle school students at STARS Prep Academy MS45 in East Harlem during the 11-week program. The students are learning about journalism and news literacy and plan to produce a mini-documentary focusing on issues in their community.
The News Literacy group has made quite an impression on Citizen Schools’ students here at MS 45 in East Harlem!”...
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CNN has joined the News Literacy Project as a participating news organization - the sixth print or broadcast outlet to endorse the program that helps students in middle schools and high schools appreciate quality journalism and learn how to consume and create credible information.
CNN is giving its journalists the opportunity to volunteer in the classroom and is helping to identify former employees who might be interested in doing so.
“CNN is pleased to partner with the News Literacy Project in promoting a greater understanding of credible and accurate journalism,” CNN Worldwide...
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