Evaluating News Media Bias: A Nuanced Approach to a Vital Topic
Register nowThis free webinar for educators, presented by the News Literacy Project on edWeb.net as part of National News Literacy Week, will offer strategies for teaching students about the complex topic of bias in news coverage.
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025
5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT
Evaluating News Media Bias: A Nuanced Approach to a Vital Topic
People frequently perceive and allege bias in news coverage, but what does this really mean? What makes a piece of news biased, and who decides? What roles do our own biases play in our perceptions of bias?
In this free edWebinar, Peter Adams, NLP’s Senior Vice President of Research and Design, and Brittney Smith, NLP’s Senior Manager of District Partnerships (East), will help you teach this vital, controversial and complex topic in ways that empower students to meaningfully evaluate the fairness and impartiality of news coverage.
Attendees will:
- Learn about an approach for helping students evaluate potential bias in news by recognizing different forms that bias could take in news coverage.
- Apply this approach to actual examples from news and other information in ways that demonstrate when bias is—and isn’t—obvious.
- Reflect on the nuanced, highly subjective nature of perceived bias in news.
- Explore the limitations and pitfalls of popular media bias charts and rankings.
- Learn about free News Literacy Project classroom resources for teaching about news media bias, including the “Understanding Bias” lesson on NLP’s Checkology® virtual classroom.
This edWebinar will be of interest to middle and high school teachers, librarians, school leaders, district leaders and education technology leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
