by Sayo Akao | Oct 8, 2018 | Blog
Sayo Akao Ten years after joining social media, Sayo Akao learned a fundamental lesson in the fight against fake news: When we know better, we do better. I signed into Facebook for the first time on Aug. 6, 2008. I was getting ready for eighth grade, and found social...
by Kristy Roschke | Oct 2, 2018 | Blog, Macon, Uncategorized
Kristy Roschke Kristy Roschke visited the Washington branch of the Middle Georgia Public Libraries to help librarians become news literacy educators. Last month I had the pleasure of spending the day in one of the most inviting libraries I’ve ever visited: the...
by Eric Newton | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog, Metrics Survey, News literacy, Research
News literacy Our community surveys provide insight about the public’s perception of local news organizations and their ability to differentiate fact from opinion. This week we’re releasing the results from our first batch of community surveys, designed to help...
by Kristy Roschke | Aug 20, 2018 | Blog
engagement Dan and Kristy discussed the importance of promoting community news literacy and engagement at the Association for Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Washington D.C. Dan and I had the opportunity to talk about the work the News Co/Lab has been...
by Kristy Roschke | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog, What We're Reading
Day: August 16, 2018 “‘A journalist should step correct:’ Building trust in local news” provides a useful summary of months of assessment and conversation about local journalism with two demographically different neighborhoods in the...
by Sayo Akao | Aug 15, 2018 | Blog, What We're Reading
Sayo Akao Gleb Tsipursky, co-founder of the Pro-Truth Pledge project, details 12 small efforts to help steer people to act honestly on social media. The Pro-Truth Pledge project is an effort from a group of behavioral scientists at the University of...
