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What you were reading in 2016

As we reflect on 2016, we look back at some of our social media posts that you liked most. We’re sharing your top five favorites for one more read: Our guide to spotting fake news Facebook taking steps to combat misinformation Our new Checkology™ virtual classroom “In Jest” Biggest publishers of hoaxes and fake news

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Pew study shows Americans take fake news problem seriously

A survey released by the Pew Research Center today shows that fabricated news stories are causing members of the public to be confused about basic facts. About two in three U.S. adults say that fake news has caused “a great deal of confusion about the basic facts of current events,” while roughly another quarter say it causes…

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NLP brings much-needed news literacy training to NCSS at a critical time

Peter Adams, NLP’s senior vice president for education programs, led a workshop on how educators can use authentic examples of viral rumors to drive civic learning and engagement. The session couldn’t have come at a better time. With little regulation or controls, social media platforms occupy a greater and greater space in the public attention…

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Chris Wallace: ‘News literacy in the 21st century is literacy’

Appearing this week as the featured speaker at a News Literacy Project breakfast in Washington, Chris Wallace, the anchor of Fox News Sunday, called NLP “a terrific program.” The 52-year veteran of the broadcast industry added, “News literacy in the 21st century is literacy.” And, he continued, “Knowing how to consume and judge the news is…

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Alan Miller’s statement on Stanford’s study about students and fake news

A new study by Stanford History Education Group shows that students’ digital fluency does not include understanding the news and information they read online. “The News Literacy Project has been working with educators for the past eight years to teach middle school and high school students how to address the challenges reflected in the Stanford study,”…

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Christian Armstrong: ‘We prioritize news literacy over all else’

Christian Armstrong grew up in the same housing projects where Michelle Obama had lived as a young girl — a notoriously dangerous section of Chicago’s South Side now known as O Block. He never read a newspaper, watched the news on television or listened to it on the radio. “I figured it had nothing to…

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Help us give facts a fighting chance on #GivingTuesday

This year, we’re kicking off the charitable season by joining #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. #GivingTuesday is less than a week away, and we’re looking forward to joining in for the first time! The outpouring of support we’ve seen for news literacy since the presidential election underscores the…

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Kathleen Parker calls for greater public support of NLP

In her column, Washington Post opinion writer Kathleen Parker argues that the mainstream media was this year’s “biggest loser,” and that programs like the News Literacy Project are part of the solution. “The mainstream media need to work harder at presenting balanced reporting to rebuild trust,” she writes. “And education programs aimed at teaching students how to evaluate…

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Gwen Ifill, highly respected journalist and NLP board member, dies at 61

Gwen Ifill, one of the most respected journalists of her generation and a member of the News Literacy Project (NLP) board, died today in Washington, D.C. She was 61. Ifill was the award-winning moderator and managing editor of Washington Week on PBS and co-managing editor and co-anchor of PBS NewsHour. She covered the presidential campaign and the…

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NLP’s Peter Adams talks confirmation bias

In The Mercury (Manhattan, Kansas), Adams, the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs, discusses the ways in which confirmation bias and media echo chambers distort fact — and how news literacy education can help moving forward.

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2016 presidential election underscores the need for news literacy

We have just weathered a presidential election in which a bitterly divided nation seemed incapable of agreeing on facts — let alone solutions — for the country’s myriad challenges. Meanwhile, the press, polls and pundits proved to be stunningly wrong in crafting the narrative of this election and appeared out of touch with broad swaths…

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Eva Haller, a luminary in the nonprofit world, joins the News Literacy Project board

Eva Haller, a much-honored nonprofit leader and philanthropist, is the newest member of the News Literacy Project board. She has been informally advising NLP President Alan C. Miller for the last three years. “Eva brings a wealth of experience in both the business and nonprofit worlds to the project’s board at just the right moment,” said…

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Alan Miller tackles confirmation bias in NCSS Journal

Reprinted with permission of the National Council for the Social Studies: Confronting Confirmation Bias: Giving Truth a Fighting Chance in the Information Age By Alan C. Miller Guns. Immigration. Climate change. Abortion. Race relations. Trade. Global terrorism. Across the spectrum of politically charged issues confronting the nation, Americans are more deeply divided along ideological lines…

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David Gonzalez receives NLP’s John S. Carroll Journalist Fellow Award

NLP President Alan C. Miller presented the News Literacy Project’s John S. Carroll Journalist Fellow Award to David Gonzalez of The New York Times at a luncheon at the paper on Oct. 21. Gonzalez, a reporter, photojournalist and editor at the Times for 27 years, delivered the News Literacy Project’s first journalist lesson in 2009…

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Alan Miller discusses role of satire on Lunch Break

When does political satire go too far? NLP president Alan C. Miller examines the role of satire in this year’s presidential campaign on The Wall Street Journal’s Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero on Oct. 13 in the lead-up to NLP’s “Satire Summit 2016: Beyond Satire?” event in New York City.

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Knight grant to help NLP expand reach of its virtual classroom to help students learn what information to trust

Knowing what news and information to trust is a daunting challenge for students faced with a tsunami of text, images and video of varying crediblity, accountability and transparency in today’s hyperkinetic information ecosystem. Younger students have a propensity to trust what they see: After all, it wouldn’t be on the internet if it wasn’t true.…

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Washington Post media column features NLP

“These students didn’t know Bin Laden was dead. How did we get so clueless about news?” Washington Post media writer Margaret Sullivan features the News Literacy Project in a column that calls for improved news literacy skills nationwide. “News literacy is an urgent mission,” NLP founder Alan C. Miller told Sullivan.

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NLP’s Peter Adams discusses news literacy lessons from Ferguson

Peter D. Adams, the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs, talks technology and truth — and why social media responses to police violence in Ferguson, Missouri (and beyond) might signal a new era of watchdog journalism. His column, “News literacy lessons from Ferguson that resonate today,” was published in the Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff,…

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News Literacy Project welcomes two exceptional board members

David M. Marchick, a managing director of The Carlyle Group, and Karen Wickre, a digital media pioneer who held senior communications positions at Twitter and Google for nearly 15 years, have joined the News Literacy Project board. “Dave and Karen bring exceptional experience to NLP at an important time in our development,” said board chairman…

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NLP hires new NYC coordinator

Multimedia journalist Damaso Reyes has been hired as NLP’s New York program coordinator. A former NLP journalist fellow, Reyes succeeds Elis Estrada, who has moved to the Washington, D.C., area to become that region’s program manager. “We are delighted to welcome Damaso to the NLP staff,” said NLP President Alan Miller. “His impressive skills as a multimedia…

Alison R. Bernstein, education leader and senior NLP board member, dies at 69

Alison R. Bernstein, a respected educator, scholar and foundation executive and a senior member of the News Literacy Project’s board, died June 30. She was 69. “She won many battles: for gender equality, humanity in the arts, truth in history, and human rights. She lost the one against cancer,” according to a death notice published…

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News literacy seminar at Wesleyan University: Giving truth a fighting chance

“Discerning Fact From Fiction in Our Digital-Age Democracy,” a seminar on news literacy, drew an engaged and overflow crowd on Saturday during Wesleyan University’s 2016 reunion and commencement weekend. “News literacy is giving truth, or facts, a fighting chance to catch up with falsehoods —  or at least not be overwhelmed by them in today’s…

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NLP partners with National Writing Project for news literacy webinar series

Peter Adams, NLP’s senior vice president for educational programs, moderated a special conversation with national political reporters Matea Gold and Abby Phillip from The Washington Post. Gold and Phillip offered their insights on examples of rumors and misinformation in the 2016 campaign, discussed the competing issues and agendas they must navigate in their reporting, and…

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