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Cs0 News Literacy Lecture 1, Sissel W. Mccarthy, Oer Office
Cs0 News Literacy Lecture 1, Sissel W. Mccarthy, Oer Office
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The digital age has created the need for a new kind of literacy-a literacy that empowers news consumers to determine whether information is credible, reliable and truthful. This is not just a skill; it is a new core competency for the 21st century. So-called “fake news” is hard to spot and spreads easily, leading to disagreements over basic facts. The antidote to the growing challenges posed by this digital revolution is news literacy. This mini news literacy course includes two three-hour sessions that will teach anyone to become a more critical consumer of news.
Working The News: Preserving Professional Identity Through Networked Journalism At Elite News Media, Jenny Hauser
Working The News: Preserving Professional Identity Through Networked Journalism At Elite News Media, Jenny Hauser
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The concept of journalism as a profession has arguably been fraught and contested throughout its existence. Ideologically, it is founded on a claim to norms and a code of ethics, but in the past, news media also held material control over mass communication through broadcast and print which were largely inaccessible to most citizens. The Internet and social media has created a news environment where professional journalists and their work exist side-by-side with non-journalists. In this space, acts of journalism also can be and are carried out by non-journalists. Through the new news distribution channels offered by social media, non-journalists …