June 2010 Archives

Youth Media Project: Job Opening in Media and Education
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: June 30, 2010
Youth Media Project is seeking a motivated, self-initiating individual for year-long service to build capacity in organizational operations and development. The Education and Communications Associate will assist in the coordination and instruction of YMP’s educational and media production and broadcasting...

Youth Media Project | Two Week Summer Intensive for 15 Participants, Ages 15 - 25 | Americorps Vista Volunteer Opportunity
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: June 30, 2010
Youth Media Project has two announcements: 1. We are offering, in collaboration with Santa Fe Art Institute and on the campus of Santa Fe University of Arts and Design (AKA: College of Santa Fe), our third 2-week Summer Intensive for...

Letter from the Guest Editor: Dean Miller
By: Dean Miller
Published: June 24, 2010
Dean Miller, Director, Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University

Fuzzy Logic: Why Students Need News and Information Literacy Skills
By: Debora Cheney
Published: June 24, 2010
A news librarian explains the importance of news and information literacy for students and faculty alike.

Understanding News Literacy: A Youth Media Perspective
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl and Christine Newkirk
Published: June 24, 2010
This issue of Youth Media Reporter unpacks this field of news literacy for a youth media audience, bringing a fresh perspective to youth media practice.

Can a Democracy Survive without Reliable Information?
By: Alan Miller
Published: June 24, 2010
People who are citizens in an information age have got to learn to think like journalists.

News Literacy: A News Lens for Youth Media
By: Katina Paron
Published: June 24, 2010
Youth media practitioners must encourage students to identify “real” news and information. News literacy as a way to identify and build upon a skill set that youth media programs already aim to build in young people.

Media and News Literacy in Seattle
By: Jessica Partnow
Published: June 24, 2010
Something is missing from our public school curriculum when a high school senior does not know what a journalist does, or why it is important to think about where his or her information is coming from.

The Urban Journalism workshop Program: A Case Study
By: Olivera Perkins
Published: June 24, 2010
For youth media educators, the UJW is a case study that helps present how accuracy is the most important element of news and that correction is necessary to inaccuracy.

News Literacy in High School and Middle Grades: Why We Need it Now More than Ever Before
By: Steve Shultz
Published: June 24, 2010
All educators have the means to be news literacy instructors. Critical thinking is an end teachers hope to achieve, regardless of content area.

Teaching Journalism and News Literacy
By: Esther Wojcicki
Published: June 24, 2010
A high school teacher's experience working with an active student newspaper crew at Palo Alto.

Mariah Cooper, Youth Journalist
By: Timothy J. Tynan
Published: June 24, 2010