In USA Today, Miller connects the viral spread of misinformation and measles

Published on May 3, 2019 Media Coverage

In a commentary published by USA Today, NLP founder and CEO Alan C. Miller connects the viral pandemic of misinformation and the rapidly increasing growth in the number of measles cases across the United States and around the world. He notes that decisions and actions based on false information may pose real dangers — and, in the case of decisions about vaccination, can have life-or-death consequences.

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Even nation’s founders considered impact of misinformation on democracy

How are you celebrating the Fourth of July — with fireworks, a parade, a family cookout? May we suggest sharpening your news literacy skills? Our nation’s founders would be proud of you. While they didn’t have to contend with the 24-hour news cycle, internet trolls or disinformation-spewing bots, the Founding Fathers were concerned that misinformation…

Published on Jul 3, 2019 NLP Updates

Fourth-grade class at Carl Von Linné School in Chicago

NLP’s Newsroom to Classroom program brings journalist visits back to schools

Usually, the last day of school is an exercise in the mundane: emptying lockers, clearing out desks, shelving books in the library. But that wasn’t the case on June 20 for the fourth-graders in Jodi Mahoney’s technology classroom at Carl Von Linné School in Chicago. They wrapped up the school year with a virtual visit…

Published on Jul 2, 2019 NLP Updates

A proposal to honor journalists who died doing their jobs

One year ago today, a gunman opened fire in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. The attack took the lives of five people, four of them journalists, on the deadliest day for American journalism in modern history. Embed from Getty Images With that tragedy in mind, legislation introduced in Congress this week…

Published on Jun 28, 2019 NLP Updates