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Focus Tag: Media and Information Literacy
Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism | NPR
by Frank Langfitt
December 13, 2021
This year's Nobel Peace Prize recipients — two investigative journalists from the Philippines and Russia — used their acceptance speeches…
How the Wisdom of Crowds Could Fight Facebook’s Fact-Checking Problem | Time
by Jennifer Allen and David Rand
December 6, 2021
In 1907, statistician Francis Galton observed something strange at a county fair: Attendees were participating in a game where they…
On Omicron, uncertainty, vaccine equity, and the media | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
November 30, 2021
Late last week, the world started to hear about a new coronavirus variant that had already started to worry scientists:…
How Journalists and Academics are Tackling the ‘Misinformation’ Wars | The New York Times
by Ben Smith
November 29, 2021
On Friday afternoons this fall, top American news executives have dialed into a series of off-the-record Zoom meetings led by…
Address — don’t sidestep — health misinformation to debunk falsehoods, study finds | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Shraddha Chakraddhar
November 29, 2021
A common way to tackle misinformation, especially health misinformation, is to ignore it. And this is a strategy often employed…
Project Veritas and the mainstream media: Strange allies in the fight to protect press freedom | The Conversation
by Jane E Kirtley
November 22, 2021
An FBI raid on Project Veritas leader James O'Keefe’s home in early November 2021 has sparked an unusual demonstration of…
Misinformation is spreading online about a military media takeover | Poynter
by Ciara O'Rourke
November 22, 2021
The title of a recent Facebook video claims that the military has taken over the mainstream media. “Military takes over…
News literacy lessons on Covid-19 misinformation | The Washington Post
by Valerie Strauss
November 19, 2021
Here is the latest installment of a weekly feature I have been running for some time on this blog —…
Video: The 2021 Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press: Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Winner | Harvard University
by Harvard Kennedy School: Shorenstein Center & Institute of Politics
November 18, 2021
A journalist in Asia for 35 years, Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler.com, the top digital-only news site that is leading the…