Your First Amendment Not Their First Amendment
Stony Brook University Center for News Literacy What gives New York Times Editor Bill Keller the right to stand up to the President of the United States and publish facts the President wants kept...
View ArticleTeaching News Literacy
Stony Brook University Center for News Literacy You don’t need to brace for a long bureaucratic adoption process to start teaching News Literacy. Fellow teachers around the country have built a variety...
View ArticleDifferent Tools, Different News
Katherine Fry, Ph.D., The LAMP The same news story can seem very different when it is covered in different media. A story published in a print newspaper will be different if it’s covered on television...
View ArticlePhoto Manipulation: Did What You See Actually Happen?
Vera Haller, Baruch College Advances in technology have made altering a photograph as easy as opening up PhotoShop on a computer. But with the ease of alteration come questions about the place of...
View ArticleBlur: How to Know if It’s True
Tom Rosenstiel, The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism In the new media age, consumers are the gatekeepers over their own media consumption. How can they know what information...
View ArticleA Watchdog Press: Does it Translate Globally?
Kirsten Lundberg, Knight Case Studies Initiative The Journalism School, Columbia University Pre-workshop reading: Web | PDF The First Amendment provides enormous press freedom in the United States....
View ArticleShould You Believe in Blogs?
No one is sure of the numbers but current estimates suggest that as many as 50 million people are now blogging. Why? One reason is that blogs engage people in the sharing of knowledge, encouraging...
View ArticlePrivacy and Publicness in the Digital Age
Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism What do you consider to be private and what do you think should be public? What is the value of privacy and when does it warrant protection? What is the...
View ArticleSocial Media: From Facebook to Twitter: Spreading the News
Sandeep Junnarkar, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism When we receive information via social media, what can we believe and when should we be skeptical? How can we use social media to inform ourselves?...
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Baruch President Mitchel Wallerstein’s Opening Remarks
Thank you Professor Rosenberg, and let me welcome students, educators, administrators, journalists, and news professionals to the first High School News Literacy Summit at Baruch College. We are...
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