The News Literacy Project

Participating Educational Programs

The Center for News Literacy

The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University was created in 2007 to spread the news literacy course developed by Howard Schneider, the dean of the newest school of journalism in the country. With the support of a $1.7 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Center for News Literacy is conducting a robust pilot, with the aim of teaching its course to 10,000 Stony Brook undergraduates across all disciplines by 2013. In addition, a grant from the Ford Foundation enables the center to bring secondary and elementary school teachers from across the U.S. to its summer institute to learn the Stony Brook model and write lesson plans for their classrooms. By 2011, the Stony Brook model had already been adopted at a dozen colleges and universities in various permutations: Some offer it as a general education course, some offer it as a freshman seminar and some have built it into their journalism program. “The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University is proud to work closely with the News Literacy Project,” said Schneider, the dean of the Stony Brook School of Journalism and a member of the News Literacy Project’s founding board. “While the center works primarily by sharing materials with colleges and universities, its goals are identical with the News Literacy Project: to bring key news literacy concepts, values and skills to thousands of classrooms across the country and to hundreds of thousands of future news consumers and citizens.”

The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania

“The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania applauds the News Literacy Project’s effort to give students the tools to discern verified information amid the explosion of sources available today,’’ said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the center’s director. “This goal is consistent with Annenberg’s mission of furthering understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education and service.” The News Literacy Project uses the center’s Factcheck.org in its activities on viral e-mail and Wikipedia and as one of its recommended resources.