Checkology teacher shares importance of news literacy on Radio Arlington

A News Literacy Project webinar for educators shared practical advice and tips to help students regain trust in credible news and to question faulty beliefs about media bias.

News Literacy Project CEO and President Charles Salter responded to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments on the need for news literacy in preserving democracy, while underscoring NLP’s focus on a solution. “We agree with Justice Sotomayor that the lack of news literacy skills today poses a danger to all of us. But we also…

As part of the sixth annual National News Literacy Week, the News Literacy Project hosted an online discussion with Laskas, who detailed her reporting and noted the watchdog role that investigative journalists play in a democracy.