Ask Jessenia Martinez: What does news literacy mean?
July 23, 2014
Jessenia Martinez, a DePaul University and former participant of the Pasos al Futuro program talks about how to figure out what real news is vs. false information. For two weeks in June, students from Benito Juarez Community Academy, Solorio Academy High School, John F. Kennedy High School, Whitney Young and other local schools—and a few from schools in California—did [...]
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Digitally Connected: Call for art and digital media
July 12, 2014
The Youth and Media Team at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and UNICEF are receiving creative pieces until July 18, 2014, centered around the idea of the Internet and its impact on youth around the world. They are looking for art/digital media from youth to help tell our collective stories in an e-book that will be available [...]
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Quiz the media: What does it take to be a journalist in the digital age?
April 28, 2014
Do you believe in crowdsourcing media funding? Should robots write the news? Would you ever put yourself in physical danger to report a story? On April 16, 2014, teams of journalism students from Chicago-area universities had the opportunity to ask frank questions to a panel of seasoned journalists—Maria Hinojosa (Latino USA), John Quinones (ABC), [...]
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High school journalism power
March 18, 2014
Chicago students celebrate a great year of student journalism at the 2014 High School Journalism Awards. Hats off to the students journalists from around Chicago who were awarded for journalism excellence by the McCormick Foundation and the Scholastic Press Association of Chicago on March 11, 2014. The annual event, held at Roosevelt University and [...]
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Journalism is a responsibility, no matter your age
March 18, 2014
High school and college journalists already know they have the power to inform and enlighten. At a March 10 McCormick Foundation meeting with Student Press Law Center Executive Director Frank LoMonte, about two dozen Chicago-area student journalists and educators were reminded that they also have the power to change the rules. If students left [...]
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