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STUDY: How Americans Get Their News (& Other Media)

A new study shows Americans still follow the news, even as more social media, electronic entertainment and YouTube videos pull at their tim…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Mar 18, 2014

ESSAY: Photojournalism; Images of War & Public Opinion

From the latest issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, author Michael Mayer writes: "Photographs are the way we experience the physical r…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Mar 16, 2014

BOOKS: Contemporary News Photos As Centerpiece of New Series

This new (2014) Compass Point Book series, Captured World History, seeks to engage students via images from the news. Can a photograph tran…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Mar 13, 2014

FREE WEBINAR on News Literacy

This April, the News Literacy Project is offering an open virtual professional development session for teachers anywhere in the world. The…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Feb 26, 2014

CURRICULUM/RESOURCES: NIE WEEK (March 3-7)

As we approach News in Education Week (March 3 – 7), the American Press Institute wants to highlight its curriculum resource created for 20…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Feb 22, 2014

The Facebook Effect On The News

Social networks are the new front page and homepage for news. But on Facebook, it's not the "news" that readers come to see or click to lea…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Feb 12, 2014

LESSON PLAN: Using Newpaper Editorials to Teach Persuasive Writing

Teaching students to write short, newspaper editorials can help them craft evidence-based persuasive essays and learn how such writing work…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Feb 10, 2014

Advocating news literacy as an essential part of 21st century education

In this Edutopia blog post, the writer explores the "news literacy" concept and how it can be applied in classrooms to help students unders…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Feb 4, 2014

Using Newspaper Articles to Help Struggling Readers

Margueya Poupko, a teacher at Bruriah High School in Elizabeth, N.J., was struggling to reach her students when she decided to use human-in…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jan 30, 2014

Promoting Its Own Products, a Magazine Labels an Ad as News

From The New York Times:  Content from advertisers that resembles editorial coverage, commonly called native advertising, is drawing height…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jan 18, 2014

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