Spotlight: Stonybrook University Center for News Literacy
Stonybrook's Center for News Literacy is charting new territory around how to prepare future citizens to demand diverse, independent and accountable news.
FROM STONYBROOK CENTER FOR NEWS LITERACY ABOUT PAGE:
Critical thinking. Citizenship. The importance of the press. These are some of the tenets of The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University's School of Journalism. Faculty members train the next generation of news consumers to think critically about what they read, watch, and hear.
The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University is committed to teaching students how to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports and news sources. It is the only such center in the United States.
Funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the center currently is committed to teaching News Literacy to 10,000 undergraduates—from across all academic disciplines.
The Center also is at work developing innovative curriculum materials for high schools and the general public.
With support from the Ford Foundation, the center convened a national conference on News Literacy in March 2009 and launched a high school teacher training program.
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