A progress report from the News Co/Lab

A progress report from the News Co/Lab

metrics Kristy Roschke talks about Best Practices, newsroom collaborations, science news literacy and all thats been happening during her first two months at the lab. It has been a jam-packed two months since I joined the News Co/Lab team. I’m impressed by all our...
Rethinking our roles in the war for facts

Rethinking our roles in the war for facts

Day: April 18, 2018 (Editor’s note: Newsroom change leader Michele McLellan headed up the News Co/Lab’s reporting on Best Practices. In this, the fourth of four posts, Michele discusses the role of tools and techniques in advancing news awareness.) The news and...
Journalism educators take on fake news

Journalism educators take on fake news

research At the Broadcast Education Association convention this weekend in Las Vegas, a quartet of back-to-back “power panels” looked at fake news. It was refreshing to see a full room considering the problems of solutions of counterfeit stories in the digital age,...
Helping people distinguish fact from fiction

Helping people distinguish fact from fiction

best practices (Editor’s note: Newsroom change leader Michele McLellan headed up the News Co/Lab’s reporting on Best Practices. In this, the third of four posts, Michele discusses the role of education in advancing news awareness.) Every day, people on social media...
News literacy and engagement are becoming a global affair

News literacy and engagement are becoming a global affair

John Moore (Note: This is a guest post by John Moore, who retired as editor of the Ventura County Star in California in April 2017 after more than 50 years in journalism.) My standard stump speech to community groups about five years ago included the line that the...