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News Literacy And A Civics Model For Journalism Education, Jennifer Fleming

First Global News Literacy Conference

News literacy is a relative newcomer to media literacy education even though instruction on teaching students how to access, analyze, evaluate, and, in some cases, create news media messages has been part of media literacy research and practice for decades. What is new is the label news literacy—a label that emerged in American journalism education circles in 2006 and media literacy education communities shortly thereafter. RobbGrieco and Hobbs (2012) identify two news literacy paradigms: Global and American. Global news literacy programs encourage macro-level inquiry of news issues—issues such as ownership, ideologies, and institutions that many argue negatively influence news production …