NLP’s Peter Adams discusses news literacy lessons from Ferguson

Published on August 18, 2016 NLP in the News

Peter D. Adams, the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs, talks technology and truth — and why social media responses to police violence in Ferguson, Missouri (and beyond) might signal a new era of watchdog journalism. His column, “News literacy lessons from Ferguson that resonate today,” was published in the Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, Arizona) and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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