Vivian 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.
"With more than 20 years of experience in the media industry, Vivian is a talented and proven leader with superb skills and roots in the news business," said Howard Stevenson, chairman of NPR’s board of...
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The 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 engagement. Its stated mission "is to graduate lifelong learners with the skills and knowledge for academic and professional success, and to shape responsible, active, thoughtful participants and leaders...
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The News Literacy Project is featured in the November/December edition of The Social Studies Professional, the newsletter of the National Council for the Social Studies. It is distributed to 25,000 teachers and other subscribers.
The News Literacy Project: Coming Soon to the Internet
The News Literacy Project is an innovative national program that intends to mobilize journalists to help middle and high school students sort fact from fiction in the digital age. It is a response to the growing challenge of assuring that America’s young people get the information they need to become...
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The News Literacy Project is delighted to welcome Kate Ferrall, a former teacher and broadcast journalist, as program coordinator. She brings valuable experience, talent and commitment to the mission.
A graduate of Oberlin College and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Kate began her career teaching at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. before moving to “The Kids on the Block,” an international program that uses puppets to educate young people about disabilities and social differences. After earning her master’s degree in journalism, she worked as a...
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The News Literacy Project is seeking retired journalists to work with New York middle school students from East Harlem and Brooklyn in early 2009. The project is partnering with Citizen Schools, a national model that improves student achievement through after-school programs that blend real-world learning and rigorous academics. The project’s journalists will receive training from Citizen Schools and become "Citizen Teachers." Teams of two or more journalists will work with a dozen students or so for 90 minutes in the late afternoon once a week for 10 weeks, starting in early February. The...
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The project is pleased to announce that Dr. Terry K. Peterson, who served as counselor to former Education Secretary Richard Riley, has joined the board. Terry spearheaded numerous national education initiatives during the Clinton administration as well as state reforms as education adviser to Riley during his governorship of South Carolina. In both positions, Riley said, Terry was his “right-hand man.” He remains deeply involved in education as a senior fellow at the College of Charleston, director of the Afterschool and Community Learning National Network and chairman of the national...
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