Silva’s op-ed makes strong case for news literacy education

Published on July 26, 2019 NLP in the News

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an op-ed by NLP Director of Education John Silva on July 25 regarding the urgent need for news literacy education. John was in Columbia, Missouri, that week to participate in news literacy workshops at the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute.

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