9 Teens on Why They’re Spending Their Summer Working In News
“I think being a journalist now is even more important than ever,” says one teen.
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Fishy News in Your Feed? Don’t Get Faked!
Don’t Get Faked is a quick quiz to test your B.S. detection skills and show you if you’ve got a nose for fake news. And it has a bunch of resources to help you become an even sharper news sleuth.
More Tools To Help You Spot Fake News
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Just Reading The News Isn’t Enough
I thought political awareness meant living and breathing what I read in the news. But when my beliefs got twisted with other people’s opinions, I decided to re-evaluate my media consumption.
Learning To Pitch The New York Times
Natalie Shutler, editor of The New York Times’ On Campus section dropped in on Youth Radio to teach a workshop on writing essays for national media outlets.
When To “Out” Racist A**holes, And Other Hard Media Literacy Lessons
You don’t kill fascism by doxxing one person, no matter how vile their thoughts are.
Check Yourself: 3 Ways NOT To React To The Congressional Baseball Shooting
#1: Don’t just skim headlines — read the damn articles.
YRI at Stanford, Imagining Education’s Digital Future
Youth Radio’s Lissa Soep was a part of a lecture series at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education in May,…
DIY Toolkit: Introduction To Fact-Checking For Journalists
OK, so calling people and annotating how you know everything in your story may not be the sexiest part of the job, but it is absolutely necessary. And for new reporters, the time to build your fact-checking spidey sense is NOW.