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The Alaska news organization published NLP’s column on how to tackle “fake news.” It was written by guest journalist Gene Foreman.

Peter Adams, NLP’s senior vice president of educational programs, urges MarketWatch readers not to forget the role that quality journalism plays in a democracy when some types of news coverage frustrate them.

NLP journalist fellow Alicia Shepard mentions NLP as a key force in educating the next generation how to navigate news and information in a piece for Moyers & Company about how news consumers can avoid getting duped by fake news.

In her column, Washington Post opinion writer Kathleen Parker argues that the mainstream media was this year’s “biggest loser,” and that programs like the News Literacy Project are part of the solution. “The mainstream media need to work harder at presenting balanced reporting to rebuild trust,” she writes. “And education programs aimed at teaching students how to evaluate…

In The Mercury (Manhattan, Kansas), Adams, the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs, discusses the ways in which confirmation bias and media echo chambers distort fact — and how news literacy education can help moving forward.

Editor Gilbert Bailon discusses the need for reliable information during election season — and how news literacy skills such as what NLP teaches can help bolster civic engagement.

The Spokane, Washington, news organization published retired AP reporter Larry Margasak’s piece that grapples with media fairness standards in the context of the 2016 election — and how journalism can move forward.

Judy Patrick of The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, New York, discusses the importance of developing critical-thinking skills in an era where fake news is everywhere — and how groups such as NLP are working to educate future news consumers.

Reprinted with permission of the National Council for the Social Studies: Confronting Confirmation Bias: Giving Truth a Fighting Chance in the Information Age By Alan C. Miller Guns. Immigration. Climate change. Abortion. Race relations. Trade. Global terrorism. Across the spectrum of politically charged issues confronting the nation, Americans are more deeply divided along ideological lines…

Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri and Ashley Nicole Black, a writer and correspondent for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, talk with Brian Lehrer on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show about why political satire is such a potent force in American culture and politics today.

When does political satire go too far? NLP president Alan C. Miller examines the role of satire in this year’s presidential campaign on The Wall Street Journal’s Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero on Oct. 13 in the lead-up to NLP’s “Satire Summit 2016: Beyond Satire?” event in New York City.

The News Literacy Project’s president and founder spoke with KSFR’s Dave Marash about the importance of teaching news literacy skills to students and the vital role that credible information plays in a healthy democracy.

“These students didn’t know Bin Laden was dead. How did we get so clueless about news?” Washington Post media writer Margaret Sullivan features the News Literacy Project in a column that calls for improved news literacy skills nationwide. “News literacy is an urgent mission,” NLP founder Alan C. Miller told Sullivan.

The News Literacy Project and The Sacramento Bee are pairing up to hold community discussions about the needs of Sacramento’s Afghan immigrants. The discussion series is part of The National Community and News Literacy Roundtables Project.

Daily Do Good spotlights NLP’s commitment to teaching critical-thinking skills in the digital age — and how you can help.

Peter D. Adams, the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs, talks technology and truth — and why social media responses to police violence in Ferguson, Missouri (and beyond) might signal a new era of watchdog journalism. His column, “News literacy lessons from Ferguson that resonate today,” was published in the Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff,…

Rockford (Illinois) Register Star Executive Editor Mark Baldwin reflects on why news literacy is so important and how the News Literacy Project — with programs such as the checkology™ virtual classroom — has helped tailor education to the digital age.

The Chicago-area suburban publication spotlights how the News Literacy Project helps to teach critical-thinking skills to Leo High School students in a report that profiles the school’s efforts to increase enrollment.

Summer Moore, an editor at The Times of Northwest Indiana in Munster, Indiana, writes about her volunteer experience teaching news literacy to high school freshmen, and about how NLP’s “News Literacy Is” video helped her succeed.

Adviser Update, published by the Dow Jones News Fund, profiles NLP’s trendsetting role in shaping the news literacy field. Sifting through mounds of information in a digital age, author Richard J. Levine writes, is a “critical skill” — one NLP aptly helps hone.  

The Pulitzer Center captured the News Literacy Project’s field trip with students from Cristo Rey New York High School to attend a Campfire session held in honor of the Pulitzer Prize Centennial.

Katherine Schulten offers “a roundup of tools, questions, activities and case studies” to determine the reliability of the onslaught of information we encounter every day. “Although we doubt we need to convince teachers that this skill is important, we like the way Peter Adams from the News Literacy Project frames it in a post for Edutopia,”she…

The National Association for Media Literacy Education interviewed the News Literacy Project’s Darragh Worland, New York City program manager and vice president for digital media, about NLP’s history, how the organization is staying relevant in an increasingly evolving news and information landscape, and upcoming projects.

The Columbia Journalism Review describes how news roundups can be an important part of a varied media diet and discusses the relevance of a News Literacy Project lesson: “Learning what goes into a news roundup is reminiscent of a lesson called ‘The Page One Meeting’ created by the News Literacy Project, where students get a…