Are you informed or influenced?

In a recent update to Encyclopedia Britannica, Pamela Brunskill, the News Literacy Project’s senior director of education, broke down the meaning of news literacy. She detailed how to assess different types of information, understand the First Amendment, detect misinformation and practice civic responsibility. “News literacy teaches people how to think critically about timely issues and…

Paul Beckett, assistant editor at the Wall Street Journal, spoke to NLP about press freedom and the imprisonment of reporter Evan Gershkovich.

To help us navigate a flood of content, the News Literacy Project’s Dan Evon shared ways to be an active consumer of information online.