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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.