Newsweek quotes NLP CEO Salter on solution to lack of news literacy
News Literacy Project CEO and President Charles Salter responded to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments on the need for news literacy in preserving democracy, while underscoring NLP’s focus on a solution. “We agree with Justice Sotomayor that the lack of news literacy skills today poses a danger to all of us. But we also see a solution. We are working toward it every day by bringing free news literacy education to school districts across the country, with the goal of ensuring all high school graduates have the ability to think for themselves so they can confidently navigate our information saturated world,” Salter said in a Feb. 12 Newsweek article.
Sotomayor’s comments came during a conversation on media and news literacy with Knight Foundation President and CEO Maribel Pérez Wadsworth. “We will lose our democracy. News literacy is the obligation of all of us to become more knowledgeable to get accurate information,” she said. “You cannot depend upon what people are telling you.”