News and Media Literacy.md

News & Media Literacy

This is a curated list of resources for teaching and learning news and media literacy.

Contents

1. 📚 Books
2. 📅 Events
3. 💡 Initiatives and Projects
4. 📝 Learning and Teaching Resources
5. ✉️ Newletters
6. 🎙 Podcasts and Talk Shows
7. 📜 Policies
8. 📊 Reports
9. 📱 Tools
10. 🖥 Webinars

📚 Books

• A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind, David J. Helfand (Columbia University Press, 2017)
• Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, Kevin Young (Graywolf Press, 2018)
• Calling Bullshit, Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West (Penguin Random House, 2020)
• Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, Lucas Graves (Columbia University Press, 2016)
• Internet Literacy Handbook, Council of Europe (2017) Read
• The News: A User’s Manual, Alain de Botton (Pantheon, 2014)
• The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time, Brooke Gladstone (Workman Publishing, 2017)
• Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era, Daniel J. Levitin (Penguin Random House, 2017)
• Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, Michael A. Caulfield (Pressbooks, n.d.) Read

📅 Events

• International Fact-Checking Day

💡 Initiatives & Projects

• AllSides
• Arizona State University News Co/Lab
• Better News (American Press Institute & Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative)
• Center for News Literacy @ Stony Brook Uni. Sch. of Journalism
• Center for Countering Digital Hate (UK)
• Co-Inform
• Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)
• Common Sense Education
• Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI)
• Facebook Journalism Project
• Google News Initiative
• National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) (US)
• Media Literacy Now
• National Literacy Trust (UK)
• News Integrity Initiative @ the CUNY Newmark J-School
• News Literacy Project
• Project Origin
• Social Science One

📝 Learning and Teaching Resources

• Sarah Blakeslee. 2004. The CRAAP Test, LOEX Quarterly, Volume 31: Issue 3, Article 4. PDF
  The CRAAP Test is a simple, practical framework for evaluating the credibility of information. It involves asking questions about the information's Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. PDF Web

• Caroline Jack and Monica Bulger. 2017. Lexicon of Lies: Teaching Resources, Data & Society Research Institute. PDF Web

• 5 tips for fact-checking datasets (Poynter)

• A Field Guide to "Fake News" and Other Information Disorders (Public Data Lab) DOI PDF Github

• #BotSpot: Twelve Ways to Spot a Bot (Digital Forensic Research Lab @ Atlantic Council): some tricks to identify fake Twitter accounts.

• Checkology (News Literacy Project): a virtual classroom where middle and high school students develop news literacy skills.

• Fact-checking for educators and future voters (FactBar EDU)

• Fake News and News Bias (Boston University Libraries): guides on fact checking and bias recognition.

• First Draft Resource Hub (First Draft): guides on resources for news gathering, verification, reporting, etc.
  Includes First Draft's Essential Guide to:

  • Understanding Information Disorder PDF Web
  • Verifying Online Information PDF Web
  • Closed Groups, Messaging Apps and Online Ads PDF Web

• The Full Fact Toolkit (Full Fact): a collection of simple tools for identifying misleading videos, images, headlines, etc.

• History Lessons (Stanford History Education Group): "...teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading."

• Fake news and critical literacy resources (National Literacy Trust): a series of fake news and critical literacy teaching resources for parents, and primary and secondary educators.

• Método de Verificación del Debate Público (Chequeado)

• Misinformation Review (Harvard Kennedy School)

• News & Media Literacy Curriculum Resources (Common Sense): learning resources and classroom activities for Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.

• NewsGuard News Literacy Resources

• Novedades del área de Educación (Chequeado)

• Slowing the infodemic: How to Spot COVID-19 misinformation (NAMLE)

• Courses

  • Fact-checking, Better News | Free
  • Fact-Checking and Debunking: Covering Rumors, Hoaxes and Gossip, Poynter (Craig Silverman)
  • Getting It Right: Accuracy and Verification in the Digital Age, Poynter (Craig Silverman)
  • Hands-on Fact-checking: A Short Course, Poynter (Jane Elizabeth & Alexios Mantzarlis) | Free
  • Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens, Coursera (Masato Kajimoto & others | University of Hong Kong & SUNY)
  • News Literacy Primer: How to Evaluate Information, Poynter (Pam Hogle)
  • Practical Data Ethics, Fast.ai | Free
  • Verification, Google News Initiative | Free

• Exercises, Games & Quizzes

  • Can You Spot the Deceptive Facebook Post? (New York Times)
  • Daily Quizzes to Train Your Verification Skills (Bellingcat)
  • First Draft Observation Challenge (First Draft)
  • First Draft Geolocation Challenge (First Draft)
  • The News Hero on Facebook (The News Hero)
  • The Perils of Perception (Ipsos)

• Reference & Fact Check

  • Africa Check Info Finder
  • Data.gov
  • Data.gov.uk
  • FAO Statistics
  • Full Fact Finder
  • Internet Archive
  • Pew Research Center - Journalism & Media
  • WHO World Health Data Platform
  • World Bank Open Data
  • Apps
    • FactStream, by Duke University App Store
    • Logically, by Logically App Store Google Play
    • Newstrition, by our.news App Store

• Videos

  • How to Spot Fake News (FactCheck.org)

✉️ Newsletters

• News Literacy Project
• Matter of Facts (Deepnews.ai)

🎙 Podcasts and Talk Shows

• Fake news related podcasts @ Uni. of Oxford
• The Fake News Podcast by Freddie Quinne? Spotify TuneIn
• Soundcloud Playlist
• 25 May 2020, Fact-Checking in a Post-Truth World (Bellingcat)

📜 Policies

• European Commission, Tackling online disinformation

📊 Reports

• Commission on Fake News and the Teaching of Critical Literacy Skills, 2017. Fake news and critical literacy. PDF Web
• Council of Europe. 2017. Internet Literacy Handbook. PDF
• European Audiovisual Observatory, 2017. Mapping of media literacy practices and actions in EU-28: EAO report. PDF Web
• European Commission, 2018. Synopsis report of the public consultation on fake news and online disinformation. Web
• National Council for the Social Studies, 2018. Social Education September 2018. Papers
• Rand Corporation, 2021. Media Literacy Education to Counter Truth Decay DOI PDF Web
• Reuters Institute, 2018. The Impact of Greater News Literacy (in Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018). PDF Web
• Stanford History Education Group, 2016. Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning. PDF

📱 Tools

• Web tools curated by Rand Corporation
• Browser plugins
  • NewsGuard Chrome Firefox
  • Trusted News Chrome

🖥 Webinars

• Jul 2018 | Fact-Check It: Digital Tools to Verify Everything Online | Poynter (Daniel Funke & Ren LaForme)
• May 2020 | Fact-checking in an Era of Fake News and Misinformation | David N. Ofili Slides Video
• Jun 2020 | Online Harms & Disinformation Post-COVID | The Alan Turing Institute Video