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INFORMATION LITERACY :

NEWS:

EDUCATION: K-12 :

PSYCHOLOGY: CRITICAL THINKING:

The News Literacy Project (NLP)

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The News Literacy Project (NLP)

http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org/

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About The News Literacy Project

http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org/about/

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The News Literacy Project (NLP) is an innovative national educational
program that mobilizes seasoned journalists to help middle school and high
school students sort fact from fiction in the digital age.

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The project teaches students critical-thinking skills that will enable
them to be smarter and more frequent consumers and creators of credible
information across all media and platforms. It seeks to light a spark of
interest in students to seek information that will make them more
knowledgeable about their communities, the nation and the world.

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The project also aspires to elevate the mission of news literacy
nationally through classroom programs, digital media, public events and
the news media itself.

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NLP shows students how to distinguish verified information from spin,
opinion and misinformation whether they are using search engines to find
websites with information about specific topics, assessing a viral email,
viewing a video on YouTube, watching television news or reading a
newspaper or a blog post.

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Students are being taught to seek news and information that will make them
well-informed and engaged students, consumers and citizens. They are also
being encouraged to produce news and information accurately, fairly and
responsibly to make their own voices as credible and powerful as possible.

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Twenty news organizations are partnering with NLP. This website features a
national directory of volunteer journalists, including their biographies
and photographs. The project has more than 185 journalists enrolled in its
online directory, including broadcast correspondents, authors of
best-selling books and winners of journalisms highest honors. Since 2009,
nearly 100 journalist fellows have made more than 250 presentations in
classrooms, conferences, workshops and other NLP programs.

The journalists are matched with classes based on the curriculum.

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Our goal should be that every American possesses the skills to discern
news from infotainment, fact from opinion, and trustworthy information
sources from untrustworthy, said Michael Copps, a member of the Federal
Communications Commission. Happily, there is good work being done on the
literacy front. One example is the News Literacy Project.

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Contact
5525 Devon Rd.
Bethesda, Md. 20814 301-651-7499

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Press Room

http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org/press/

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In the Media

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America: Bring Back Bogart

CJR: News Literacy Expands to DC

Bethesda Magazine: The Best of Bethesda 2011

Chicago Tribune: Program Uses Journalism to Break Down Barriers

Bethesda Patch: News Literacy Project Brings Journalists Into the
Classroom

Wesleyan Magazine: Check It Twice

Youth Media Reporter: Can a Democracy Survive without Reliable
Information?

Nieman Reports: News Literacy Project: Students Figure Out What News and
Information to Trust

Nieman Reports: Critical Thinking About Journalism: A High School
Students View

USA Today: As journalism changes, so must you

Edutopia: A Program Teaches Teens What to Believe in the Digital World

Media Bistros FishbowlNY: The News Literacy Project: Bringing
Accountability Into the Classroom

Southwest News-Herald: Marquette Pilot Program Features Columnist Talk

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The News: Whats True?

Columbia Journalism Review: Leap of Faith

Teacher Magazine: News You Can Use

News Literacy Project Video: Check It Out

Remarks by Alan C. Miller, Executive Director of the News Literacy

Project, at Stony Brook

James Rainey: Write Away, Student Journalists

Encore Journey: Investigative Reporter to Civic Educator

No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-Hour News Cycle

Journalism And That Whole Citizenship Thing

Global News Literacy Roundtable Discussion on C-SPAN

National Endowment for Democracy

FishbowlLA

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Press Releases

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The News Literacy Project Holds its 2011 Fall Forum Event on Oct. 19

The News Literacy Project Kicks Off Its DC Expansion With An Event
Featuring Gwen Ifill

The News Literacy Project Kicks Off Fall Forum Speaker Series on September
12, 2010

The News Literacy Project Kicks Off Its Chicago Pilot With An Event
Featuring Clarence Page

The News Literacy Project Kicks Off Today in Bethesda, Md., with Mark
Halperin and Pierre Thomas

National Conference to Focus on News Literacy

The News Literacy Project Kicks Off in Maryland on Feb. 26 with Mark
Halperin and Pierre Thomas

The News Literacy Project Kicks Off in NYC Today with an Event Featuring
CNNs Soledad OBrien

The News Literacy Project Kicks Off in NYC on Feb. 2 with an Event
Featuring CNNs Soledad OBrien

Poynter Institute is News Literacy Projects New Partner and Administrative
Home

Alan Miller Addresses Knight Commission on the Information Needs of
Communities in a Democracy

The News Literacy Project Launches Web Site and Plans Pilot Projects for
Early 2009

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Blog

http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org/blog/

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