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The News Literacy Project hosted experts who addressed how voters in news deserts can be sure they find credible information and sources.

The News Literacy Project’s Checkology digital learning platform has won a Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

Pennslyvania educator Pam Szabo develops a media and news literacy curriculum for all freshman using News Literacy Project resources.

Checkology® is in the running for top honors in The Webby Awards, the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences’ signature awards program.

The total solar eclipse, which can be seen in several U.S. states on April 8, has prompted conspiracy theories and misinformation.

Learn what motivates Texas ambassador Sara E. Gonzales to embed news literacy in her teaching. Ambassador Connections is a series highlighting NewsLitNation Ambassadors.

Susan Minichiello, News Literacy Project’s senior manager of education design, produces the newsletters The Sift and Get Smart About News.

As 2023 ends, we review misinformation trends and news literacy lessons they offer, so we can resolve to be better news consumers in 2024.

Get to know DeMario Phipps- Smith, of Chicago, the News Literacy Project’s senior manager of community learning.

California high school teacher Jason Hensley is a news literacy ambassador for the News Literacy Project as well as an adjunct professor and author.

You can have a transformative impact this Giving Tuesday! Join the News Literacy Project to celebrate the global day of generosity and consider a gift to make your mark.

The Canyons Schools District in Utah has created a professional learning program for media literacy that is a model for other districts.

Our annual report for fiscal year 2023 (July 2022-June ’23) showcases what we’ve achieved as we transform our mission into a movement.

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

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

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

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.

Building on its history of partnerships with journalists and news outlets, the News Literacy Project is launching its first National Journalism Advisory Council. This group of prominent leaders will help the nonpartisan education nonprofit deepen NLP’s engagement with news organizations and journalists, amplify its mission, and assist news outlets in strengthening trust with their communities.

Black History Month is celebrates African American perseverance through unspeakable adversity and is intertwined with news literacy.

NLPeople is a series that introduces you to the people of NLP. Meet Dan Evon, senior manager of education design.

NewsLitCamp: Trust and Credibility was a free, virtual event hosted by the News Literacy Project in partnership with NBCUniversal News Group! It was designed to help educators teach students to analyze news and information with a skeptical — not cynical — eye. The professional learning highlighted:  What it means for news to inform us credibly.  …