by Sayo Akao | Jan 25, 2018 | What We're Reading
essential reading Coming from the Center for Effective Public Management at Brookings is a detailed paper by James Klurfield and Howard Schneider on their experience infusing news literacy into general university education at Stony Brook University and creating the...
by Pat Poblete | Jan 20, 2018 | What We're Reading
Pat Poblete Truth Decay, a report from the RAND Corporation, details the “diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life.” The report identifies and details four trends that contribute to the erosion of civil discourse: increasing disagreement about...
by Pat Poblete | Jan 9, 2018 | What We're Reading
Pat Poblete The Stanford History Education Group conducted educational assessments across the country to measure civic online reasoning that found that “young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak.” The...
by Kristy Roschke | Jan 2, 2018 | What We're Reading
Kristy Roschke PEN America, whose mission is to “unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible,” evaluates the phenomena of fake news and society’s response to it in “Faking News: Fraudulent News and the...
by Sayo Akao | Jan 1, 2018 | What We're Reading
essential reading Knowing how to properly research is a skill that a journalist picks up over time. Barrett Bonella, a professor at Weber State University, is attempting to teach her students how to become informed consumers in her Social Work Research course. In an...
by Sayo Akao | Jan 1, 2018 | What We're Reading
essential reading Stony Brook University gives us selection of papers from a variety of different authors at the Center for News Literacy to expand our knowledge and understanding of news literacy. The research covers the subtle nuances of news literacy globally, in...
