Take the news literacy pledge!
September 14, 2014
You can make a difference in helping your friends, family and community become smarter consumers and creators of news and information. Who You! If you use social media, read news on your phone, watch TV, and/or read the paper, then you’ll want to join students, journalists, community members, educators from around the nation who are [...]
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Lost Friends: The stories behind the violence
September 3, 2014
In today’s news cycle, the public tends to learn about youth violence through a steady stream of sound bites, with little else to offer a picture of the larger narrative connecting them. To fill in the gaps, the July 31 screening of the documentary “Lost Friends” at the Tribune Tower offered a more personal [...]
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“Because News Matters” news literacy summit preview
August 27, 2014
WhyNewsMatters.org catches up with Poynter’s Wendy Wallace, faculty, grants manager, about the upcoming News Literacy Summit taking place September 14-15, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. What’s the goal of the Because News Matters news literacy summit? Wendy Wallace: The News Literacy Summit is a landmark convening to advance the cause of news literacy, teaching young [...]
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Chicago students dig deep to uncover global-local issues
August 17, 2014
Free Spirit Media in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and After School Matters hosts for the fifth year an advanced documentary apprenticeship for Chicago high school students. The Pulitzer Center supports international journalism on under-reported global issues, and coordinates public and education outreach around that reporting. Free Spirit Media runs project-based media [...]
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Cafe Society news literacy discussion: Talking about gun violence
August 10, 2014
A recent Café Society community discussion focuses on gun violence in Chicago and invites the community to analyze media reports covering the issue. On a mid-July morning, news teams gathered in front of a red brick building in West Garfield Park to report the shooting death of 11-year-old Shamiya Adams . Cameras panned the wall, pausing [...]
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