Tag: News Literacy Project

PRSA Partners with News Literacy Project to Create Programming Exclusively for PRSA and PRSSA Members

Stuart Mitchell

PRSA, the nation’s leading professional organization serving the communications community, and the News Literacy Project, the nation’s leading provider of news literacy education, have partnered to create a series of webinars exclusively for PRSA and PRSSA members. Under the heading of “Are You as News Literate as You Can Be,” these three sessions are designed to strengthen communications professionals’ effectiveness in counseling clients, improve their ability to recognize and battle disinformation, and incorporate news literacy into their overall strategies and daily practice. “We are all in the news business, whether…

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National News Literacy Week encourages us all to recognize misinformation and not to spread it

Stuart Mitchell

As misinformation spreads at alarming rates and puts our health and democracy at risk, the News Literacy Project and The E.W. Scripps Company are continuing to promote the need for greater news literacy, a fundamental and important skill that empowers people to make fact-based decisions about their lives and their governance. The third annual National News Literacy Week began on Monday, with “Stop the flood of misinformation … care before you share” as its theme. This initiative is backed by more than 30 news organizations that have signed a letter…

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Scripps, News Literacy Project kick off public awareness campaign in lead-up to National News Literacy Week

Stuart Mitchell

At a time when Americans’ trust in mass media edges downward, the News Literacy Project is partnering with The E.W. Scripps Company to launch a national public awareness campaign on the importance of news literacy and the role of the free press in American democracy. The campaign, which is now running across Scripps’ local broadcast stations and national media businesses and with other journalism media partners, promotes news literacy as a fundamental life skill for America to have an educated and empowered populace. With “double-check your facts” as its tagline,…

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