NLP CEO and founder Alan C. Miller marks the organization’s 14-year anniversary by sharing a lesson he learned about running a successful non-profit for each year of NLP’s history.
We stand forewarned: If America is to reverse its slide toward becoming an information dystopia, we must not only accept the responsibility of knowing what news and other information to trust, but we must provide the next generation with the means to do so as well.
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.
For more than a year, the theory that the COVID-19 global pandemic began with the leak of a previously unknown coronavirus from a laboratory at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in late 2019 was roundly, even vociferously, dismissed by many scientists and most in the news media.
John Carroll was the kind of editor who made you proud to be a journalist. He inspired those who worked for him. In my case, I felt honored to call him my editor, my chairman, my friend.
Communities of color have historically been underserved by the news business, and the loss of journalism jobs and outlets nationwide has exacerbated this neglect. Then came the pandemic, with its disproportionate impact on Black and brown people throughout the United States, and the accompanying “infodemic” of misinformation.
The tumultuous events of the past year have highlighted the First Amendment’s vital role as a pillar of American democracy. They have also underscored the need for vigilance in defending it.
The upcoming Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday offers an opportune moment to reflect on my favorite film about journalism: Spotlight, which won the best picture Oscar in 2016.
I first met Emily Ramshaw at a dinner in Austin, Texas, in November 2019. She had just left The Texas Tribune, where she was its highly respected editor-in-chief, to take a giant leap of faith. She was about to launch a nonprofit online news organization devoted to covering politics and policy through a gender lens,…
This column is a periodic series of personal reflections on journalism, news literacy, education and related topics by NLP’s founder and CEO, Alan C. Miller. Columns are posted at 10 a.m. ET every other Thursday. The PBS NewsHour segment on the News Literacy Project had just aired. “How was it?” my colleague asked me. “Great for us,” I responded. “But…
This column is a periodic series of personal reflections on journalism, news literacy, education and related topics by NLP’s founder and CEO, Alan C. Miller. Columns are posted at 10 a.m. ET every other Thursday. Ninety years before the jaw-dropping notion of “alternative facts” made its debut on the North Lawn of the White House at the dawn…
Mary Beth Tinker addresses an audience of students at The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in 2014. Photo by Eli Hiller / Flickr.com / CC BY-SA 2.0 Mary Beth Tinker was only 16 years old when, in 1969, her name became synonymous with freedom of speech for students. I also was a…
In a look at how news literacy education helps young people navigate the Information Age, NLP founder and CEO Alan C. Miller hears from students and educators about how they’ve learned to critically look at what they’re reading, watching and hearing.
In this week’s column, NLP CEO and founder Alan C. Miller marks the organization’s 13-year anniversary by sharing a lesson he learned about running a successful non-profit for each year of NLP’s history.
In his latest column, which was picked up by Poynter, NLP CEO and founder Alan C. Miller argues that the news media needs to be discerning in how it reports on the COVID-19 vaccines and above all, it must avoid any sensational coverage.
NLP founder and CEO Alan C. Miller argues that despite several high profile instances of outright fabrications, quality journalists and news outlets do not make things up, and when standards are violated, corrections and consequences follow.
NLP CEO and founder Alan C. Miller takes a moment to celebrate some things that went indisputably right in our recent rite of democracy during this election period.
Ahead of the presidential election, NLP’s CEO and founder Alan C. Miller urges anchors, reporters, producers, editors and news executives to exercise restraint, precision and care with any results they project and races they call.
NLP’s CEO and founder Alan C. Miller reflects on what he calls “a new golden age of investigative reporting,” even as newspapers fold and the number of journalists drops in the face of economic contraction.
NLP’s CEO and founder Alan C. Miller provides advice on how to spot misinformation and avoid spreading it in his first “Upon Reflection” column, which was picked up and published by the Chicago Tribune on Sept. 28.