by Celeste Sepessy | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog
Celeste Sepessy Editor’s note: The following is the second in a series of guest blog posts from news literacy educator and journalist Theresa Walsh Giarrusso. In November 2019, I launched a News and Social Media Literacy Pilot Program in the Montclair School...
by Celeste Sepessy | Oct 26, 2021 | Blog
Blog Editor’s note: The following is the first in a series of guest blog posts from news literacy educator and journalist Theresa Walsh Giarrusso. In the fall of 2019, misinformation was rampant and expected to worsen as the election neared. As a nation, we had...
by Celeste Sepessy | Jun 10, 2021 | Blog
Celeste Sepessy She was CNBC’s newest content creator. She’d make $45 an hour and start April 26. It all started with a LinkedIn job posting. Then came an offer from Ryan Ruggiero, CNBC’s director of newsroom outreach strategy and initiatives. The new graduate...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 24, 2021 | Blog, Mediactive
Day: <span>March 24, 2021</span> This post is part of a new project at the News Co/Lab: an updated version of our Mediactive open online course with a stronger focus on media literacy in science and health. We’re building on the core concepts,...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog
Blog About two years ago, my colleague Kristy Roschke and I were contemplating the future of the ASU News Co/Lab and our related teaching of digital media literacy. One idea was to add another course or two, to give students more advanced and nuanced understanding of...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 8, 2021 | Blog
Blog Four years ago, in the wake of the misinformation-polluted 2016 elections, a “news literacy working group” convened at Arizona State University. The gathering, sponsored by Facebook and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, led to a...
