Alan C. Miller is the founder of the News Literacy Project, the leading provider of news literacy education in the country. He established NLP in 2008 to give middle and high school educators the tools to teach their students how to separate fact from fiction in the digital age. Alan stepped down as CEO in June 2022 after leading NLP for 14 years. In that time, NLP’s offerings grew. As more readers and viewers engage online with media outlets, NLP continues to champion the development of smart, active consumers of news and other information and, ultimately, encourage participation in democracy. Alan’s 29 years in journalism – 21 with the Los Angeles Times – saw him earn more than a dozen national reporting honors, including the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Most recently, he received the 2022 AARP Purpose Prize and the 2022 EWC Distinguished Alumni Award from the East-West Center in Honolulu and was named a Washingtonian of the Year in 2020 by Washingtonian magazine. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii.

Select media appearances

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, How conspiratorial thinking is undermining democracy, and what we can do about it, Dec. 12, 2022