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If you didn't participate in the conference, this is an opportunity to "attend" the conference yourself. More... Introduction video... Download report...
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Who, What, Why, Where. More...
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Panel discussions by university presidents and news media leaders plus partnership announcement between LSU and Stony Brook Universities to advance news literacy in the U.S. More...
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Six breakout groups discussed specific ideas for moving News Literacy forward and presented two sets of conclusions specific to the theme the group was investigating. More...
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At the concluding session of the conference, Dean Howard Schneider proposed what would become the conference's "big idea." More...

What is News Literacy

News Literacy is the ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports and news sources. Students today are bombarded with blogs, "tweets," rumors, gossip, opinion, punditry, hype, spin, bias, propaganda, and advertising, all vying with journalism in their claims to be credible. News Literacy is an essential skill if today's high school and college students are to become not just intelligent consumers of news, but effective citizens.
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News Literacy at Stony Brook
An Overview: Stony Brook University's School of Journalism News Literacy Initiative.
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The News Media Panel
What responsibilities do journalists have to educate their own consumers?
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A Conversation with David Mindich
Creating politically powerful and engaged news consumers: A Call to Arms
Presenter:
  • David Mindich, Author, "Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News", and Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication, St. Michael's College
Breakout Group Leaders Present Final Recommen-dations
Panelists:
  • Jonathan Landman, The News York Times, on partnerships between news organizations and schools to promote News Literacy
  • Susan Moeller, International Center for Media and Public Agenda and University of Maryland, on creating News Literacy programs for diverse and global communities
  • Jack Hamilton, Lousiana State University, on establishing News Literacy courses at universities
  • Fabrice Florin, NewsTrust, on how digital technology can advance News Literacy
  • Charles Bierbauer, University of South Carolina, on how journalism schools can lead the way instituting News Literacy in universities
  • Rita-Marie Murphy, Patchogue-Medford Schools, on introducing News Literacy programs into high school curricula
The Presidents' Panel
How can universities incorporate News Literacy into a curriculum for the 21st Century?
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Keynote Address by Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.
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Lightning Round, Part I
Reports from the Front: Innovators in News Literacy
Panelists:
  • Fabrice Florin, Executive Director and Founder, NewsTrust
  • Alan Miller, Executive Director, The News Literacy Project
  • Susan Moeller, Professor, University of Maryland and Director, International Center for Media and Public Agenda
Lightning Round, Part II
Reports from the Front: Innovators in News Literacy
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  • Take a News Literacy course at The Poynter Institute's NewsU. Enroll now...

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Testimonials

Some of the brightest minds are here and some of the insights coming out of our discussions are invaluable in our own work.
Executive Director, NewsTrust | Fabrice Florin
There was a palpable sense of urgency... you could sense, feel it in the room. It was very concrete... there was really action.
President and CEO, NPR | Vivian Schiller
Absolutely fantastic. Wonderfully inspiring and genius. I want to steal all of the ideas and take them back to Syracuse University for our own News Literacy [course].
Charlotte Grimes
Knight Chair, Newhouse School, Syracuse University

The Big Idea: How your Univerisity or High school can participate

What if courses in News Literacy could dramatically spread from coast-to-coast to dozens of universities and scores of high schools in the next year? What if there was a way to fund the growth so that the universities and local school districts, many of them resource-starved, would not have to initially pay any cost?

What if there was a way to marry the growing need for News Literacy education with a pool of experienced professionals who are out-of-work, just waiting to have their talent and passion re-directed into the classroom? "

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