NLP News

While discussing the Derek Chauvin murder trial in the death of George Floyd, a student alerts the class about the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright.

The News Literacy Project is hosting a four-part series of professional learning webinars focused on essential news literacy concepts.

Get to know Niki Lessig, who is director of development, at the News Literacy Project and is based in Washington, D.C.

NewsLitCamp is an immersive, free professional learning experience primarily for middle and high school educators.

NLP’s app is now heavy on TikTok content! Our game-like app, Informable®, has added a Mix-Up Mode made up entirely of videos from the hugely popular social media video platform.

 In part one of a two-part series for the Education for Sustainable Democracy podcast, John Silva, NLP’s senior director of education and training, and Miriam Romais, NLP’s senior manager of educator engagement, discussed the importance of news literacy and strategies to help young people become smart news consumers.

NLP’s John Silva explained in a piece for the nonprofit news site MinnPost why news literacy education  must be integrated into K-12 education across all subject areas and grade levels and be mandated as a high school graduation requirement. 

How can consumers figure out fact from fiction in the current media landscape? What strategies should they use to know whether the news they are following is credible?

As an intelligence analyst at the CIA, Cindy Otis was trained to assess how our country’s foreign adversaries deploy divisive rumors, destructive conspiracy theories and other kinds of disinformation against us.

Alan is taking a break from column-writing for the summer. Watch this space for the column’s return on Sept. 9.

This is part of a series that introduces you to the people of NLP. This week we interview Miriam Romais.

We’re proud to announce that NLP and our Checkology® virtual classroom have been selected in the annual list of the Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).

Earlier this month, Peter Adams, NLP’s senior vice president of education, gave the keynote address for our annual 2021 News Literacy Change-Maker Awards. Adams issued a strong warning about the harm misinformation can cause, and we wanted to share his important remarks with you.