The News Literacy Project is a national program committed to educating middle- and high school students on the importance of fact over fiction in the digital age of journalism. Since it was founded in 2008 by Alan C. Miller, a former investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the program has found its way into several New York, Maryland and Chicago schools. The idea is to create a relationship between active and retired journalists and teachers to educate students on the importance of news and informing them on how to identify credible news reporting. This program partners with the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
You can read how this program is affecting students in the Chicago Tribune's article Program uses journalism to break down barriers by Erin Calandriello.
Kaleigh Robichaud
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