The News Co/Lab discovers, develops, and distributes innovative tools and techniques aimed at helping people understand how news works in the digital age.
In a world saturated with data, where misinformation commands the stage alongside truthful and useful information, we focus primarily on the βdemand sideβ βββ helping people better find, understand, act upon, and create credible news and information, and to share it with integrity.
The News Co/Lab experiments with new ways of advancing news awareness. We want to collaborate with teachers, journalists, librarians, technologists, civic leaders, among others βββ all who share our goals and want to work on this. We support the good work that others are already doing, and help them do more of it.
We believe:
- News-aware consumers are critical thinkers and lifelong learners.
- Organizations that help people understand how media works are more service-oriented, more open and transparent. They are engaged with and reflective of their communities.
- News-aware communities βββ geographic and virtual βββ are healthier. They make better decisions. They are better problem-solvers.
- News literacy helps ensure an informed citizenry, a fundamental building block of democracy.
We work toward the day when news and media literacies are universal, at the heart of every fact-based society.