This week marks the second annual National News Literacy Week, a joint effort by the News Literacy Project and The E.W. Scripps Company, “to promote news literacy as a fundamental life skill and to provide the public with the tools needed to be an informed and empowered populace.”
The News Literacy Project defines “news literacy” as the “ability to determine the credibility of news and other content, to identify different types of information, and to use the standards of authoritative, fact-based journalism to determine what to trust, share and act on.”
The News Literacy Week website offers the following:
Social media images to download and share, with #NewsLiteracyWeek
Pledge to get NewsLit fit in 2021
Resources for everyone
The News Literacy Project has also created an app, Informable, to “[t]est your news literacy know-how . . . . Score points for accuracy and speed across three levels of difficulty in four distinct modes.”
About the Sponsors
The News Literacy Project is “a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.”
The E.W. Scripps Company is “the nation’s fourth-largest local TV broadcaster, serving communities with quality, objective local journalism.”