News Literacy Matters
News Literacy Website and class
Recent group activity
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Kaitlyn Wells (she/her/hers) edited the blog post Q: What is “off the record” and has it ever been breached? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 5 days, 19 hours ago
Protect your sources. It’s the cardinal rule of journalism, and reporters hold this promise of confidentiality in the highest regard. Journalists will protect a source’s identity or withhold details of their con […]
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Jeanie Ahn (she/her) edited the blog post Q: Are journalists obligated to continuously correct and update their previous work as long as it is publicly accessible? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 1 week, 5 days ago
At the very least, journalists must strive to publish reports that are independently verified, accurate, and fair at the time of publication. As news breaks, it’s up to the reporter and editorial team to d […]
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Kaitlyn Wells (she/her/hers) edited the blog post Q: What is the purpose of ‘background’ or ‘deep background’ quotes? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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Ethical journalists act with integrity, seek the truth, and report on it. Telling a story of public interest requires transparency on who provided the information and how the reporter acquired it. Sometimes […]
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Keldy Ortiz (he/him) edited the blog post Q: How often are corporations, who own news outlets, actually putting the citizens first, and how can we as consumers hold these media owners accountable? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 3 weeks, 5 days ago
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Journalists have a long history of putting citizens first and holding power to account–and that shouldn’t change just because there’s a new owner on the masthead. Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel go even […]
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Alvely Lora (She/Her) joined the group
News Literacy Matters 4 weeks, 1 day ago
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Rebecca Polly Leider (She/Hers) edited the blog post Q: If late-night comedy is based on verified news, why can’t it be considered journalism? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 1 month ago
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To answer this question, you might go straight to the source. Since launching his HBO series Last Week Tonight in 2014, John Oliver has repeatedly shot down suggestions that his work is a form of […]
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Keldy Ortiz (he/him) joined the group
News Literacy Matters 1 month, 1 week ago
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Sissel McCarthy edited the blog post Q: Why is press freedom declining around the world? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 1 month, 1 week ago
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Press freedom is under attack, and not just recently. It has been on a steady decline for the last decade, according to the World Press Freedom Index, which ranks 180 countries every year. In 2022, only […]
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Kaitlyn Wells (she/her/hers) joined the group
News Literacy Matters 1 month, 1 week ago
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Sissel McCarthy edited the blog post Q: Why do so many people including politicians believe in conspiracy theories these days? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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It feels like a new conspiracy theory is popping up every day. Just look at the social media posts after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during the game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Doctors […]
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Sissel McCarthy edited the blog post Q: What’s wrong with bothsidesism? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 5 months ago
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We’ve all heard the saying, “There are two sides to every story.” And sometimes, that’s true in journalism—and life. But balance is not an element of journalism and certainly not its goal. While reporte […]
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Sissel McCarthy edited the blog post Q: Why do TV news shows seem to interview the same cisgender white males again and again? Why isn’t there better representation? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Representation is a huge challenge for newsrooms, and you’re right– they need to do better. We talked about why the racial makeup of a newsroom matters in a post earlier this year, but you bring up another […]
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Sissel McCarthy edited the blog post Q: Have social media companies gone too far in censoring what some consider free speech? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 5 months, 4 weeks ago
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That depends on whom you ask, but a lot of U.S. adults think so, according to a new poll by Pew Research. More than 90 percent of conservative Republicans believe social media companies are censoring […]
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Coralie Carlson edited the blog post Q: Can changing your media diet change your attitudes? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 6 months, 1 week ago
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There is some evidence that it can, and two political scientists recently performed an interesting experiment to find out. David Broockman of the University of California at Berkeley and Joshua Kalla of […]
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Sissel McCarthy edited the blog post Q: Is fact-checking enough to stop the spread of misinformation on the internet? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Fact-checkers are on the frontline in the war against misinformation, and their ranks are growing as falsehoods flood the internet. The number of fact-checkers has doubled since 2016, with nearly 400 now […]
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Sissel McCarthy edited the blog post The Growing Threat of News Silos in the group
News Literacy Matters: 6 months, 3 weeks ago
America’s partisan divide is becoming more pronounced, and cable news is stoking these divisions even more than social media, according to a new study that tracked the news consumption of tens of thousands of p […]
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Coralie Carlson edited the blog post Q: What can we do when in a face-to-face conflict with someone who believes in a conspiracy theory? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
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Chances are we all know someone – a family member, a friend, a classmate, or a co-worker – who believes in conspiracy theories. In fact, more than half of Americans believe in at least one conspiracy the […]
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Jeanie Ahn (she/her) edited the blog post Q: Are well-established news sites always trustworthy? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 12 months ago
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With any human endeavor, there’s potential for error. While it is the responsibility of journalists and news organizations to deliver accurate and fair reporting, consumers should never assume that e […]
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David G Alm edited the blog post Q: What is the difference between news and truth? in the group
News Literacy Matters: 12 months ago
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Men were dying. Homeless, indigent, alone, often asleep on city streets or in subway cars. No one knew when the next death might occur. The locations were adding up, too: Washington, then New York. Was […]
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Uku J joined the group
News Literacy Matters 1 year ago
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