by Serena O'Sullivan | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog
Serena O'Sullivan What does “fake news” actually mean? Not much. Here’s how one journalism student tried to recognize the elements of information disorder in her own life. The term “fake news” is unavoidable. It pops up on TV screens and 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 Michele McLellan | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog
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...
by Eric Newton | Apr 9, 2018 | Blog
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,...
by Michele McLellan | Apr 5, 2018 | Blog
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...