The News Literacy Project
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The News Literacy Project
- 1. @TheNewsLP PR Council Presentation Alan Miller President/CEO The News Literacy Project July 24, 2017
- 2. @TheNewsLP Our Mission • Secondary school students • Smart, active consumers of news and information • Engaged, informed citizens
- 10. @TheNewsLP “This class has definitely changed my life. We prioritize news literacy over all else. The newspaper is considered to be our Holy Grail.” — Christian Armstrong, Leo Catholic High School, Chicago (center) “Learning how to distinguish between false and factual information allows us to control the news we consume, instead of allowing the news we consume to control us.” — Jenari Mitchell, KIPP DC College Preparatory, Washington (right) Our Impact
- 12. @TheNewsLP Engage employees on NLP’s behalf Open door to clients’ CSR plans Focused assistance National PR campaign Back to school Our Needs
- 13. @TheNewsLP Help us give facts a fighting chance!
Editor's Notes
- Our mission is critical for educating the next generation in the Information Age, preserving quality journalism by creating a demand for it and strengthening the grassroots of the nation’s democracy.
- To see news literacy embedded in the American educational experience as an essential skill, giving every student an appreciation of quality journalism and the tools to be an informed participant in the nation’s democracy.
- In our first eight years, our classroom, after-school and digital programs reached more than 25,000 middle school and high school students in diverse schools in New York, Chicago, the Washington, D.C., region and Houston. More than 400 volunteer journalist fellows delivered more than 750 lessons, in person and virtually.
- http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org/introducing-checkology-virtual-classroom
- In just over a year, more than 6,900 educators who teach more than 1M students in every state in the U.S. and 61 countries have registered to use the platform.
- Expand reach of the checkology® virtual classroom checkology® 2.0, international, Spanish-language, community of practice Web-based and mobile-friendly app NewsLitCamps PSA campaign with Facebook Building capacity