Erie House pilots a community news literacy program
October 1, 2014
Also known as La Casa Erie, Chicago’s Erie House received a McCormick Foundation grant last year to help fund a news literacy curriculum created by four teen interns for out-of-school teen participants. The interns wrote and piloted their curriculum, based on Stony Brook University’s News Literacy course, to integrate into Erie House’s Youth Options Unlimited [...]
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Westside Writing Project offers digital media workshops this fall
September 29, 2014
This fall the Westside Writing Project (WWP) will partner with Loyola University of Chicago’s (LUC) School of Communications (SoC) to offer a series of hands-on, digital media workshops for area students. Workshop sessions: Program Overview/Intro to WWP Saturday, October 11th 10:00 am-11:30 am This workshop will introduce students/parents/ school administrators to WWP. Research/News Literacy Saturday [...]
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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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