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Advertising Age and Adweek, the leading sources of news about the marketing and media industries, provided some background on the campaign’s eye-catching typeface. Chicago Public Square gave a nod to NLP’s latest effort to fight fake news. The #SeeAlltheAngles ad campaign, which will appear in a variety of media outlets over the next six months,…

Can you read the headline on the right? No? Good. That’s what we’re hoping. We’d like you to pause for a moment to think — and then dig a little deeper to decipher the meaning of what you’re seeing, just as you should do when determining whether the news you’re reading is real or fake.…

This is, no doubt, welcome news to fighters against fake news. It certainly is to us, and we’re excited to be part of this global effort. Starting today, people in 14 countries (including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan) will see an “educational tool” at the…

Alan C. Miller, NLP’s president and CEO, joined Jeff Jarvis, a professor at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism; Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of news partnerships; and John Borthwick, CEO of Betaworks, on Facebook Live on Monday to announce the launch of the News Integrity Initiative. Funded by tech industry leaders, academic institutions, nonprofits and other…

We’re honored to be a founding participant in the News Integrity Initiative, a global consortium “focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.” Based at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York, the Initiative is launching with $14 million in funding from tech industry leaders, academic…

Erika Hobbs, NLP’s communications director and Chicago program manager, was interviewed by Amy Guth on the most recent episode of WGN Radio’s Saturday Night Special. The topic: NLP’s efforts to deliver news literacy education to people of all ages.

More than 80 percent of the students who responded to the survey said that the unit: Improved the way they gathered, used and produced credible information. Improved their ability to distinguish quality journalism from other types of news and information. Increased their ability to use news to become knowledgeable about their communities, the nation and…

NLP’s president and CEO, Alan C. Miller, was interviewed on Thursday, March 30, by Dave Marash of KSFR-FM, a public radio station in Santa Fe, N.M. They discussed how reporters are covering President Donald Trump’s administration and why it’s necessary to teach young people about journalism, its role in a democracy, and the importance of…

NLP’s New York program manager, Damaso Reyes, joined media literacy experts for a webinar that educates librarians and teachers about tools that help students gain vital news and media literacy skills.

We’re just three months into 2017, and we have already enrolled 6,200 educators who teach 775,000 students in urban, suburban and rural areas throughout the United States and in at least 46 countries around the globe, from China to Turkey to South Africa to Brazil to Australia. Interest surged following the presidential election and the…

The News Literacy Project’s programs and resources are among the “new weapons” that educators are deploying to teach their students how to fight against misinformation in the digital age.

Washington Post reporter Harrison Smith spent time in a classroom at Saint Francis International School, a Catholic school in Silver Spring, Maryland, where students are using NLP’s e-learning resource to become responsible news consumers and avoid falling for “fake news.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer spent time in two schools to show how students use (and like) NLP’s Checkology™ virtual classroom. The schools’ adoption of the virtual classroom comes amid a growing national movement among educators to bring news- and media-literacy lessons to their students.

Patricia Hunt, a government teacher at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, was featured on WERA’s Choose to be Curious show. She focused on how she is using the Checkology™ virtual classroom with her students and why news literacy skills are important in the digital age. Hunt was previously featured in two other reports on…

The new position is the result of the explosion of interest in the virtual classroom, which was introduced in May 2016. In its first 10 months, 4,500 educators who teach 550,000 students throughout the United States and in at least 38 other countries have registered to use the platform. “As a teacher, I saw firsthand…

Those of us who have focused for years on the challenges to consumers created by digital media are no longer a voice in the wilderness. Recent events (especially the furor over the primacy and definition of “fake news”) have thrust our mission into the middle of myriad conversations — and have established news literacy education…

No matter how many times she urged them to check their sources, the students would say, “But it’s on the internet,” “There is no author” or “It looks like a real source.” Pushing them to delve deeper proved challenging until Burek discovered the News Literacy Project’s Checkology™ virtual classroom while researching curriculum for an upcoming…

With the public’s attention focusing on issues related to “fake news,” journalists and educators across the country are coming to us to learn how to know what to trust. An op-ed column in the International Falls (Minnesota) Journal suggested that readers use NLP’s resources to “bone up on our ability to gauge the accuracy and…

ABC News spent a morning with Elis Estrada, NLP’s program manager for the Washington, D.C., region, and a class at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Washington to demonstrate how students use our lessons to learn to distinguish false or misleading content from credible information.

Kellye Lynn, the education reporter at WJLA-TV (the ABC affiliate in the Washington, D.C., area), filed a report from a government class using NLP’s Checkology™ virtual classroom to explain how the platform is helping students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, sort fact from fiction online.

Host Joshua Johnson talked with NLP founder and CEO Alan C. Miller and two media journalists about stories and information that masquerade as news.

NLP’s founder and CEO Alan C. Miller is interviewed about the potential impact of NLP’s PSA campaign with Facebook.

Student journalists from St. Benedict’s Prep in New Jersey wrote about their experience with the Checkology™ virtual classroom on a day when NLP’s vice president of digital media, Darragh Worland, visited the class.

The authors say they no longer need to persuade teachers that news literacy is a critical skill, and give a nod to advice Adams gave earlier on on the “digital naïveté” of “digital natives.”

Columnist Tom Eblen highlighted NLP’s efforts under a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to bring news literacy and the Checkology™ virtual classroom to Lexington, Kentucky.

I left her middle school that day thinking that if a lot of journalists brought their expertise and experience to bear in this way, it could have a significant impact on education and on the future of journalism. Two years later, after 21 years as a reporter, I left the Los Angeles Times and started…

The News Literacy Project’s plans to create public service ads for Facebook made headlines around the world. Founder and CEO Alan C. Miller told The Christian Science Monitor that the effort “makes sense” because Facebook is the place to “share the tools to be better-informed consumers and sharers of all that people are getting on the platform.” In The…

Circa, the millennial-focused news site, featured NLP’s resources, including its Checkology™ virtual classroom, as a vital solution to misinformation and fake news.  

“As Facebook seeks to support journalism, we will also be working on new ways to help give people information so they can make smart choices about the news they read — and have meaningful conversations about what they care about,” Fidji Simo, Facebook’s director of product, wrote in a blog post. This effort is part…

“Steve brings distinctive experience and expertise to the NLP board,” board chairman Greg McCaffery said. “His impressive skills as a public affairs and political strategist will serve us well as we seek to create the next generation of informed and engaged citizens.” Schmidt is vice chairman for public affairs at Edelman, the world’s largest public…

The official blog for The Yellin Center for Mind, Brain and Education highlighted NLP and its resources that teach students how to evaluate the credibility of news and information.

The publication of the American Library Association outlined how libraries can help fight fake news, mentioning the News Literacy Project’s programs as an important resource.

Dale Mezzacappa highlights NLP’s efforts to bring news literacy and its Checkology™ virtual classroom to Philadelphia with help from the Knight Foundation in this article for the Philadelphia Public School Notebook.

Peter Adams, NLP’s senior vice president for educational programs, spoke to Youth Today about NLP’s impact and reach. The newspaper is distributed nationally in print and online, and is read by professionals in the youth service field.

The Kennewick, Washington, paper’s editorial board singled out the News Literacy Project for its work to help young people discern fact from fiction, and urged readers to support its programs and mission.

In a November cover story — “A Matter of Fact: News Literacy Programs Teach Kids How to Separate Fact from Fiction” — Time for Kids, a news magazine geared toward students in elementary and middle schools, highlights NLP’s work and includes interviews with Alan C. Miller, NLP’s president and founder, and a partner teacher in…

Hoffecker, a former editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Los Angeles Times, Congressional Quarterly and Bloomberg, had served as NLP’s pro bono editor and Keeper of Standards since the project’s founding in February 2008. She will be the first employee to serve in the newly created staff position. “Leslie has been an invaluable asset to…