Day One Recap: Because News Matters News Literacy Summit
by Janet Liao Kornas - September 16, 2014
Storify by Why News Matters Mon, Sep 15 2014 12:56:53 Edit Because News Matters: A News Literacy Summit, Sept. 14-15, 2014, Chicago, IL #nlsummit Funded by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, Coordinated by The Poynter Institute Day One of the News Literacy Summit kicks off with sessions on how news literacy is making a [...]
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Day Two Recap: Because News Matters: News Literacy Summit
by Janet Liao Kornas - September 16, 2014
Storify by Mon, Sep 15 2014 22:12:34 The second day of the Because News Matters News Literacy Summit covers the final issue area (Technology, Disruption and the Future of News Literacy) and features small group discussions around the challenges, problems and recommendations for scaling news literacy. Lots of interesting discussion about the need / challenges [...]
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Take the news literacy pledge!
by WNM editors - 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
by Clare Curley - 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
by Janet Liao Kornas - 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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