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Alan Miller’s statement on Stanford’s study about students and fake news

A new study by Stanford History Education Group shows that students’ digital fluency does not include understanding the news and information they read online. “The News Literacy Project has been working with educators for the past eight years to teach middle school and high school students how to address the challenges reflected in the Stanford study,”…

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Christian Armstrong: ‘We prioritize news literacy over all else’

Christian Armstrong grew up in the same housing projects where Michelle Obama had lived as a young girl — a notoriously dangerous section of Chicago’s South Side now known as O Block. He never read a newspaper, watched the news on television or listened to it on the radio. “I figured it had nothing to…

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Help us give facts a fighting chance on #GivingTuesday

This year, we’re kicking off the charitable season by joining #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. #GivingTuesday is less than a week away, and we’re looking forward to joining in for the first time! The outpouring of support we’ve seen for news literacy since the presidential election underscores the…

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Gwen Ifill, highly respected journalist and NLP board member, dies at 61

Gwen Ifill, one of the most respected journalists of her generation and a member of the News Literacy Project (NLP) board, died today in Washington, D.C. She was 61. Ifill was the award-winning moderator and managing editor of Washington Week on PBS and co-managing editor and co-anchor of PBS NewsHour. She covered the presidential campaign and the…

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2016 presidential election underscores the need for news literacy

We have just weathered a presidential election in which a bitterly divided nation seemed incapable of agreeing on facts — let alone solutions — for the country’s myriad challenges. Meanwhile, the press, polls and pundits proved to be stunningly wrong in crafting the narrative of this election and appeared out of touch with broad swaths…

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Eva Haller, a luminary in the nonprofit world, joins the News Literacy Project board

Eva Haller, a much-honored nonprofit leader and philanthropist, is the newest member of the News Literacy Project board. She has been informally advising NLP President Alan C. Miller for the last three years. “Eva brings a wealth of experience in both the business and nonprofit worlds to the project’s board at just the right moment,” said…

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David Gonzalez receives NLP’s John S. Carroll Journalist Fellow Award

NLP President Alan C. Miller presented the News Literacy Project’s John S. Carroll Journalist Fellow Award to David Gonzalez of The New York Times at a luncheon at the paper on Oct. 21. Gonzalez, a reporter, photojournalist and editor at the Times for 27 years, delivered the News Literacy Project’s first journalist lesson in 2009…

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Knight grant to help NLP expand reach of its virtual classroom to help students learn what information to trust

Knowing what news and information to trust is a daunting challenge for students faced with a tsunami of text, images and video of varying crediblity, accountability and transparency in today’s hyperkinetic information ecosystem. Younger students have a propensity to trust what they see: After all, it wouldn’t be on the internet if it wasn’t true.…

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News Literacy Project welcomes two exceptional board members

David M. Marchick, a managing director of The Carlyle Group, and Karen Wickre, a digital media pioneer who held senior communications positions at Twitter and Google for nearly 15 years, have joined the News Literacy Project board. “Dave and Karen bring exceptional experience to NLP at an important time in our development,” said board chairman…

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Alison R. Bernstein, education leader and senior NLP board member, dies at 69

Alison R. Bernstein, a respected educator, scholar and foundation executive and a senior member of the News Literacy Project’s board, died June 30. She was 69. “She won many battles: for gender equality, humanity in the arts, truth in history, and human rights. She lost the one against cancer,” according to a death notice published…

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News literacy seminar at Wesleyan University: Giving truth a fighting chance

“Discerning Fact From Fiction in Our Digital-Age Democracy,” a seminar on news literacy, drew an engaged and overflow crowd on Saturday during Wesleyan University’s 2016 reunion and commencement weekend. “News literacy is giving truth, or facts, a fighting chance to catch up with falsehoods —  or at least not be overwhelmed by them in today’s…

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NLP partners with National Writing Project for news literacy webinar series

Peter Adams, NLP’s senior vice president for educational programs, moderated a special conversation with national political reporters Matea Gold and Abby Phillip from The Washington Post. Gold and Phillip offered their insights on examples of rumors and misinformation in the 2016 campaign, discussed the competing issues and agendas they must navigate in their reporting, and…

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The News Literacy Project’s Checkology platform: ‘A dream come true for teachers’

A New York City high school educator called it “a dream come true for teachers.” A Chicago school administrator described it as a promising way to learn about social media and digital citizenship. Even before its national launch this week, the News Literacy Project’s Checkology™ e-learning platform was making a strong impression. This set of highly engaging digital…

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The News Literacy Project joins the Pulitzer centennial celebration

The News Literacy Project is joining the celebration of the Pulitzer Prize centennial to provide some extraordinary opportunities to high school students who have participated in its programs. The Pulitzer centennial committee is sponsoring a series of events across the country to honor “100 years of excellence in journalism and the arts.” It has invited…

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Juliet Stipeche, News Literacy Project board member, appointed the mayor’s education director in Houston

Juliet Stipeche, a member of the News Literacy Project’s board, has been appointed by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to serve as his director of education. She will coordinate education programs and resources between the city and Houston schools, community colleges, universities and nonprofits. She began in the newly created position on Feb. 1. “I am…

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Father Joe Parkes: ‘Making our students citizens of the world’

Staying informed and engaged is something that Father Joseph Parkes, S.J., the founding president of Cristo Rey New York High School, takes quite seriously. “I look at the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post every day,” Parkes said. “I email the papers a lot, too, and…

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Opening a window on the world

Since the launch of its classroom program seven years ago, the News Literacy Project (NLP) has helped young people gain the tools to become lifelong learners through the news media. At KIPP NYC College Prep, a group of high school seniors did not know that Osama bin Laden had been killed more than a year…

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It’s our anniversary!

The News Literacy Project celebrated two milestones today — the eighth anniversary of its founding and the seventh anniversary of its classroom program, which kicked off with an event in Brooklyn featuring founding board member Soledad O’Brien. Since then we’ve worked with more than 150 diverse and dynamic middle schools and high schools in four major markets.…

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Tribune Content Agency distributes Spotlight blog post and other NLP content

Newspapers and websites that subscribe to material from the Tribune Content Agency (TCA) now can pick up News Literacy Project (NLP) blog items that analyze news literacy lessons in current events. NLP’s Teachable Moments blog features insights written by NLP journalist fellows. TCA sent out the most recent post, “Spotlight: A Movie’s Lessons About Great Journalism,” late…

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NLP technology adviser named deputy publisher of the Los Angeles Times

Nicco Mele, an acclaimed digital strategist who has served as the News Literacy Project’s pro bono technology adviser for more than four years, has been named deputy publisher of the Los Angeles Times. “We intend to be one of the great journalism organizations of the 21st century, not just the 20th,” Austin Beutner, the Times’…

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The News Literacy Project to honor its journalist fellows with John S. Carroll Award

The News Literacy Project will recognize the outstanding contributions of one or more of its journalist fellows annually in honor of John S. Carroll, the late chairman of NLP’s board and a renowned newspaper editor. Volunteer journalist fellows have been a key to NLP’s success from the start, bringing their distinctive real-world expertise and experience…

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Greg McCaffery, CEO of Bloomberg BNA, joins the News Literacy Project’s board

Greg McCaffery, the CEO and president of Bloomberg BNA, has joined the News Literacy Project’s board. “Educating students to be discerning consumers of news strengthens both their critical-thinking skills and our democracy,” McCaffery said. “I’m delighted to join the NLP board as we expand the reach of this  important education initiative that inspires our next…

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ESPN senior vice president Rob King joins NLP’s board

Rob King, ESPN’s senior vice president for SportsCenter and News, has joined the News Literacy Project’s board. “NLP’s commitment to education and empowerment underscores the best that journalism can offer our society,” King said. “I’m excited to learn more, share what I’ve learned and engage my colleagues and peers with the project.” In May 2014, he…

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NLP model can be successfully sustained and replicated, data show

NLP’s curriculum consistently produces strong gains in students’ knowledge and prompts them to change the way they think about and act on news and information, according to surveys of students who have participated in NLP digital and classroom units. The data also suggest that NLP’s method of teaching news literacy can be widely replicated in schools…

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Bob Baker, L.A. Times stalwart, early friend of NLP, dies at 67

Bob Baker, a beloved former reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times and an early friend of the News Literacy Project, died Friday. He was 67. The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, his wife, Marjorie Baker, said. During more than 25 years at the Times, Baker distinguished himself as…

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Jee Yon Pae joins the News Literacy Project as vice president of development

Jee Yon Pae joined the News Literacy Project today as the organization’s first full-time development professional. She came to NLP from the Urban Alliance, a Washington nonprofit that provides internships, training and mentoring to youths in under-resourced communities. NLP President Alan C. Miller said that Pae brings “an exemplary fundraising track record, a deep commitment…

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News Literacy Project selected to appear in the Catalogue for Philanthropy

The News Literacy Project (NLP) has been selected to appear in the prestigious Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington as “one of the best” community-based nonprofits in the region for 2015–16. Following a thorough evaluation and financial review process, NLP was one of 78 nonprofits chosen from a competitive field of 200 candidates by the Catalogue’s…

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The News Literacy Project launches pilot program in Houston

The News Literacy Project (NLP) is pleased to announce its launch in Houston, Texas, the organization’s first expansion into a new region since 2009. NLP began its first classroom unit on Jan. 20 with four sections of 117 eighth-grade English students at Lanier Middle School in central Houston. The unit is expected to continue for…

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Erika Hobbs joins the News Literacy Project as Chicago program manager

Erika Hobbs, a journalist and educator, is the new Chicago program manager for the News Literacy Project. She begins her position overseeing NLP’s most robust regional program today. Hobbs brings a wealth of media, management and teaching experience to NLP. She was an award-winning reporter for more than a decade, including five years covering education…

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Juliet Stipeche, former president of Houston Independent School District board, joins the News Literacy Project board

“I am so excited and honored to serve as a new member of the News Literacy Project’s board,” Stipeche said. “Students today have access to more media than any other time in human history, but lack basic tools and resources to discern fact from fiction. NLP empowers students with mentors and cutting-edge resources to critically assess…

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New NLP lesson focuses on the watchdog role of a free press

This school year, participating NLP students are engaging in a new lesson that explores the importance of a vigilant free press by bringing to life four case studies of notable investigative reporting. As Cristo Rey New York High School students discussed a 60 Minutes report about a black man wrongly convicted of armed robbery by an…

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Bob Schieffer calls NLP’s mission ‘as important as the journalism itself’

Schieffer, the moderator of the CBS Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation, says it’s vital for today’s young people to learn how to determine what news and information they can trust. “With the coming of the Internet, we are bombarded with more information than any of us can process — some of it right,…

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News Literacy Project to launch professional development for teachers nationwide

The News Literacy Project is launching a series of online professional development workshops for teachers nationwide who are interested in introducing news literacy into their classrooms. The first workshop lesson will be Nov. 12. The series, Teaching News Literacy, is part of NLP’s new fee-for-service program that includes its classroom and after-school programs, as well…

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Kiwanis Club of Washington, D.C., awards the News Literacy Project a $10,000 grant

The Kiwanis Club of Washington, D.C., has awarded the News Literacy Project a $10,000 grant to support a classroom program at a public school in the District during the 2014-15 school year. The grant will enable an under-resourced school to offer NLP’s curriculum, including visits by journalist fellows. To date, NLP has partnered with four…

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