All entries tagged: news literacy
Ethan Zuckerman: Advocacy, agenda and attention: Unpacking unstated motives in NGO journalism
[If more of our news is going to produced by non-traditional sources — like NGOs who have an interest in promoting their own agenda — how can news consumers sort through their sources and figure out who to believe? Our friend Ethan Zuckerman of Harvard's Berkman Center asks those questions in this essay, which examines a [...]
Eric Newton: Shame on us if we don’t take the steps needed to feed knowledge to our democracy
[In October, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy issued its report on how our media need to evolve to serve the public interest in the digital age. The effort included some big names: Google's Marissa Mayer, former solicitor general Ted Olson, ex-L.A. Times editor John Carroll, former FCC chairman [...]
