Join us Feb. 2-6, 2026!
The seventh annual National News Literacy Week, presented by the News Literacy Project, The E.W. Scripps Company, USA Today and USA Today Network, provides educators with the tools and resources they need to help students navigate today’s information landscape more skillfully.
NATIONAL NEWS LITERACY WEEK BEGINS IN
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COMING SOON
Stay tuned to download our free classroom Activity Planner! Build students’ core news literacy skills with new activities each day.
In the age of AI, it’s not easy to know what to trust.
For teens growing up in a world where algorithms drive social media feeds, and a quick AI prompt can generate photos or videos that look real, it’s no surprise they question or doubt everything. Many teens also distrust the news media. Our latest study found that 84% of U.S. teens had negative feelings toward journalists and journalism.
This National News Literacy Week, let’s restore trust in standards-based news and embrace a healthy skepticism (not cynicism) by helping young people stay grounded with facts. News literacy education gives students the tools to more skillfully judge for themselves what information to trust, believe, share and base decisions on. We need it now more than ever.
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Educators
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Coming soon! Add news literacy to your curriculum with our 2026 National News Literacy Week planner.
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OUR EVENTS
📅 Feb. 3, 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT
Influencers, AI, and Credibility: Teach Students About the Information Ecosystem
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Join the News Literacy Project’s Hannah Covington for this National News Literacy Week edWebinar to explore teaching strategies and resources to help students distinguish between different kinds of content on social media.
RESOURCES
Did you know that the News Literacy Project uses five primary standards to define the core competencies that students need to become skilled in news literacy? Educators can use activities from our educator newsletter The Sift® and our Checkology® virtual classroom to focus on one standard at a time.
Learn more about the standards in our Framework for Teaching News Literacy.
Subscribe to The Sift newsletter, NLP’s guide to the week in news literacy for educators.
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MORE INFO
National News Literacy Week provides educators with free tools and resources to equip their students with the news literacy skills they need to become better informed and more civically engaged.
For everyone
- Learn more about what teens think of the news media: read our latest report, “Biased,” “Boring” and “Bad”: Unpacking perceptions of news media and journalism among U.S. teens (2025).
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- Subscribe to The Sift for NLP’s guide to the week in news literacy, including resources and discussion prompts.
Are you a parent or caregiver?
- Subscribe to Scroll Smarter, our monthly newsletter that helps families understand and navigate today’s information landscape.
- Check out our information for families
- Read our frequently asked questions.
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