Washingtonian lists NLP as a nonprofit worthy of support

Published on November 28, 2018 Media Coverage

Once again, Washingtonian magazine has included the News Literacy Project as a local nonprofit that is “worthy of your money.” Adia H. Robinson writes that NLP is among “ten that we’re particularly enthusiastic about this year.”

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Checkology helps a California student bring news literacy to her family — and beyond

Cristy Menor, a sophomore at the University of California, Riverside, is majoring in sociology and minoring in education, but you could say that she’s doing an unofficial minor in news literacy, too.

Published on Apr 12, 2019 NLP Updates

Boulder Weekly speaks with Alan Miller about Colorado media literacy bill

Boulder Weekly, a news outlet in Boulder, Colorado, interviewed NLP’s Alan Miller about the need for news literacy. The Colorado legislature is considering a bill that would require media literacy education in schools. “We need to teach students to think like journalists,” Miller said, and “the educators need to be informed to inform their students.”

Published on Apr 11, 2019 Media Coverage

No fooling: Connecticut students flag falsehoods, embrace evidence

Rumormongers and perpetrators of hoaxes online work hard to deceive people, but they are no match for the journalism students at The Morgan School, a public high school in Clinton, Connecticut. Their teacher, Leslie Chausse, uses the News Literacy Project’s Checkology® virtual classroom to develop their critical-thinking skills and hone their journalism chops. “There is so…

Published on Apr 5, 2019 NLP Updates