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The Israel-Hamas war has opened a floodgate of misinformation, with even standards-based news outlets struggling to verify facts on the ground. In this confusing information landscape, journalists across the country have turned to our News Literacy Project experts for help explaining how to find credible information. EducationWeek “Misinformation flourishes in times of breaking news, especially…

Learn more about NLP’s NewsLitNation Professional Learning, a free, on-demand education platform exploring foundational news literacy topics.

Each quarter, through these updates, we’ll keep you in tune with the work our network of educators is doing and how that work is shifting the media literacy education landscape across the U.S. to create a future founded on facts.

In an opinion piece for The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Charles Salter, NLP’s president and CEO, calls for donors to support advocacy efforts for more news literacy education.  “To effectively address the misinformation crisis and build a future founded on facts, more states and school districts need to make media-literacy instruction a requirement,” he wrote. Citing…

This free webinar for educators, presented by the News Literacy Project and hosted by edWeb, explores strategies for teaching students news literacy — particularly through leveraging hip-hop as a pedagogical strategy.

This free webinar for educators, presented by the News Literacy Project and hosted by edWeb, explores strategies for teaching students about misinformation in the context of social media and generative AI.

Ten educators NLP’s ambassador program expands with 10 new educators advocating for news literacy instruction in their communities.

At NLP, we believe that news literacy is essential for a functioning democracy. We know that foreign and domestic adversaries have polluted our information ecosystem to cause confusion, turn us against each other and hinder our ability to make well-informed decisions about candidates and issues. Our election misinformation campaigns help people learn how to tell…

Join us on Oct. 27 for a National NewsLitCamp with Report for America, a virtual, immersive day of professional learning built exclusively for educators.

This Democracy Day, the News Literacy Project is announcing two events intended to help everyone build understanding and trust in our democracy within their own networks of influence.

NLP today received the highest honor from the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program, the David M. Rubenstein Prize, in recognition of NLP’s outstanding efforts to help people of all ages identify misinformation and help stop its spread. The awards are given annually on Sept. 8, which UNESCO has designated as International Literacy Day. The…

The News Literacy Project and TIME for Kids are teaming up this school year to bring educators seven weeks of news literacy resources and lessons. From September through mid-October, the upper elementary editions of the TIME for Kids teacher’s guide will feature classroom-ready materials that highlight the magazine’s journalism and NLP’s free resources. Intended for…

His course was ready to meet new media literacy requirement Illinois high school educator Tom Foss credits his experience with both skeptics and conspiracy theorists and a background in science and humanities for preparing him to teach media literacy. “I used to be active in scientific skepticism circles. I did presentations on chain letters, scams and conspiracy…

This NLPeople Q&A introduces you to Pam Brunskill, senior manager of education design at the News Literacy Project.

Alicia Shepard, who died in April 2023, was a ‘journalist’s journalist,’ committed to the work of the News Literacy Project.

Each quarter, through these updates, we’ll keep you in tune with the work our network of educators is doing and how that work is shifting the media literacy education landscape across the U.S. to create a future founded on facts.

This free webinar for educators, presented by the News Literacy Project and hosted by edWeb, explores strategies for teaching students news literacy — particularly through leveraging Checkology®️ lessons and Newsroom to Classroom journalist visits.

Learn about a free educator webinar from the News Literacy Project, focused on incorporating media and news literacy learning into back-to-school plans. The event introduces the Checkology virtual classroom and other classroom resources.

Learn about a free educator webinar from the News Literacy Project, focused on how educators can begin their school year teaching issues related to the First Amendment and student press rights.

To help strengthen our democracy, news literacy skills should be taught to students of all ages, writes News Literacy Project President and CEO Charles Salter in a piece for the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

With misinformation, doctored images, and AI-generated misleading photos and videos spreading on social media, young people need news literacy skills now more than ever. For the past three years, an essay contest created by the News Literacy Project has encouraged students to fact-check online content and seek out credible sources, helping them become responsible and informed news consumers.

For NLPeople, Natalie Quan, senior manager of database operations, told us she joined NLP because she cares immensely about facts and truth.

Natalie Moore, a reporter at WBEZ in Chicago, the NPR affiliate, is the News Literacy Project’s 2023 John S. Carroll Journalist of the Year.

Broadcast journalism teacher Alba Mendiola of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago Is the 2023 Alan C. Miller Educator of the Year.

Ana Sesma, of Hoschton, Georgia, the News Literacy Project’s 2023 Gwen Ifill Student of the Year, stands out among her peers.

The American Association of School Librarians has named RumorGuard to its annual list of Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning.

In April, NLP was featured in the Washington Post, Poynter and AARP.

Editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson shares her journalism experience with New Hampshire middle school students who are studying news literacy.

Led by Urban Rural Action, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing people together across divides to address common challenges, a group of more than two dozen concerned community members will work collaboratively over the next 18 months to take action to deter targeted violence in their counties. Urban Rural Action calls the participants “Uniters.”   As part…

Join the News Literacy Project for a free educator webinar to discover how to teach news literacy skills that will serve your students throughout summer school and beyond.

Washington Post education reporter Valerie Strauss features content from The Sift®,  NLP’s free weekly newsletter for educators, in her blog throughout the school year. Banning clothes with political slogans at school, and other news literacy lessons — (May 7, 2023) Why some marginalized people distrust the new, and other news literacy lessons (April 28, 2023)…

Today marks World Press Freedom Day, which the U.N. designated in 1993. an understanding of press freedom is essential to news literacy.

Ideagen® Global has named News Literacy Project founder Alan C. Miller a 2023 Power Innovator for his news literacy education leadership.

Each quarter, through these updates, we’ll keep you in tune with the work our network of educators is doing and how that work is shifting the media literacy education landscape across the U.S. to create a future founded on facts.

Learn what motivates Texas ambassador Juan Alvarado to embed news literacy in his teaching. Ambassador Connections is a series highlighting NewsLitNation Ambassadors.

Join the News Literacy Project for a free educator webinar to discover how to teach students about misinformation.

With information generated by artificial intelligence suddenly flooding our virtual spaces, news consumers are struggling to understand what to think and how to feel about the technology. NLP’s Darragh Worland, senior vice president of creative strategy and host of NLP’s Is that a Fact? podcast, was recently featured in the Washington Post offering tips for how to make sense of this rapidly changing information environment. 

Christina Veiga, senior director of media relations at NLP talks about her commitment to news literacy and journalism, and love of the beach.

Learn about “Harm & Distrust,” a new Checkology lesson by the News Literacy Project, focused on the historical failure of mainstream news organizations to serve all people equally — particularly Black Americans — and steps toward progress in the present day.

A teacher’s media literacy class gives students skills to be more news-literate and bridges millennia, enhancing ancient history courses.