Some Fundamentals: A Good Start for ANY Citizen or Journalist to Begin Exploring…
- Jefferson Newspapers v. Government
- FACT OR FICTION: 8 TedEd & TedTalks (Fake News, Filter Bubbles, Bad Science & Stats)
- Democracy Depends on a Free Press
- 6 Principals of News Literacy
- SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS CODE OF ETHICS
- SPJ CODE OF ETHICS (PDF POSTER)
- 5 CORE VALUES OF JOURNALISM (3 min Video)
- “Without Fear or Favor” – NYT Ethical Journalism Standards (NYT)
- Newspaper Apologizes for Shameful Coverage of Lynchings
- VOICE: Who Should Be Held Accountable? Who Should Be Heard? (Handout – Common Sense Media)
- The Nature of News- Excerpt (Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy – Scheibe – Rogow)
- “Propaganda Feedback Loop” in 2020 Election (Harvard Study)
- High School Journalists Land a Scoop & The Principal Resigns
- NEWSMAX Issues Sweeping Correction Debunking Its Own Election Misinformation
- Should College Journalists Apologize for Doing Their Jobs?
- College Newspaper Apologizes, But Professional Journalists Say They Shouldn’t Have (podcast 24 mins)
- Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script – The New York Times
- How a Reporting Mistake Nearly Derailed the Watergate Investigation & How Journalists Recovered
- A Reputable News Organization Corrects It’s Error- Right Up Front (NPR)
- No Apology, No Explanation: Fox News And The Seth Rich Story : NPR
- FOX News Largely Ignores Record Single-Day Coronavirus Death Toll
- A record number of journalists are behind bars | PBS NewsHour
- Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Journalist Charged Under New China “Security” Law
- Tinker vs. Des Moines Case
- Hazelwood Case: Limiting Student Free Speech
- High School Press Freedom & Censorship
- NEWSEUM.org
- Understanding the First Amendment
- Examining the Power of the Press
- GradeTheNews.org
- Grade The News Scorecard & Instructions
- BBC launches ‘fake news’ game for young people that puts them at ‘heart of newsroom’ amid a breaking news story – Press Gazette
- THE GAME: BBC iReporter (Play takes @ :10 mins)
- DEEP DIVE on How Journalism Actually Functions (Lenfest Institute & ProPublica Illinois)
- Journalism Isn’t Dying. It’s Returning to Its Roots
- Journalistic Responsibility: The Central Park Five Case
- PRESS FREEDOM: Reporters Arrested At Protest Still Faces Trial (USA Today)
Press as “Fourth Estate”: Seeking Truth on Behalf of the People
- White House Press Briefing (press room)
- President Press Briefing (Note setting, sounds, body language)
- President Press Briefing (“Chopper Talk”)
- Post-Truth Politics: “America’s Great Divide” From Obama to Trump (FRONTLINE documentary)
How Do I Know If I Have Reliable Sources?
- Reading News Online (Short video from Common Sense Education)
- Internet Source Decision Flowchart
- FAKE NEWS & How to Spot It
- Tips For Spotting Fake News (PDF)
- Finding Reliable Sources
- Biased News Media or Biased Readers? An Experiment on Trust
- 6 Signs of Credible Sources
- “Legit-O-Meter” Poster
- “Fake or Real” Poster
- Blue Feed – Red Feed: See Liberal & Conservative Facebook Side-by-Side
- AllSides.com: Balancing News & Media Bias (Side-by-Side)
- Develop Your Fact-Checking Skills | IFCD
- Hands-on Fact-Checking: A Short Course
- This Cartoon Has 7 Tips To Avoid Fake News| IFCD
- 10 Journalism Brands Where You Find Real Facts Rather Than Alternative Facts (FORBES)
- If You’re Going to Share on Social Media, Fact-Check Your Sources & Here’s How
- Fox News Settles Law Suit for False Story (NPR)
- Fox News Study Exploring Effects of Partisan Media On Viewers Beliefs & Attitudes
- Is this ARTICLE an opinion?
- Does this article use evidence to support author’s claims?
- LINK to research abstract
“THE CHART” – MEDIA BIAS
- MEDIA BIAS CHART (Version 5.1)
- “What Makes a News Source Good” – Earlier Media Bias Chart (August 2017)
- The Reasoning & Methodology Behind “The Chart” (Dec 2016)
The Role, Responsibility of Social Media Platforms in Disseminating News
- Majority Say Social Media Companies Have Too Much Influence on How We Cosume News
- In one month, Facebook doubled the countries using its fact-checking tool — all outside the West | Poynter
- Facebook Ad Wants You To Remember The Good Old Days: Before ‘Data Misuse’ And Fake News | Tech Times
- Facebook should take a step to stop fake news in Turkey, before the election
- Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfire | TechCrunch
- It’s Not Up to Mark Zuckerberg to Decide What News is Legitimate
- Don’t Abolish Political Ads on Social Media. Stop Micro-Targeting
- Russian Meddling & Social Media Impact on 2016 Election (PBS Video 7 mins)
- Older People Shared More Fake News in 2016 Election Cycle
- The Difficulties With Facebook’s News Feed Overhaul – The New York Times
- The End of the Social News Era? Journalists Brace for Facebook’s Big Change – The New York Times
- The Big Loophole That Helped Russia Exploit Facebook: Doctored Photos – WSJ
- How Facebook Groups Are Being Exploited To Spread Misinformation, Plan Harassment, And Radicalize People
- THE RUSSIAN REPORT: Russia’s Manipulation of Social Media Messages-Election 2016 & Beyond
- Are Social Media Giants Doing Enough to Prevent Spread of Misinformation
- Tik Tok’s China Ties Cause National Security Concerns
- On Parler MAGA’s Post-Election World View Blossoms With No Pushback
And a Mash-Up of More Enriching & Interesting Stuff:
- “No One Believes Anything”: Voters Worn Out By Fog of Political News (Note Putin’s Russia & use of confusion by authoritarian leaders)
- Egyptian President Tried to Block His 60 Minutes Interview
- Facebook’s Political Ads Transparency Tool Delays Roll-Out
- A 19-yr-old Gave a Speech & Now He’s an Iowa State Senator (video)
- I Found the Best Burger Place in America, and Then I Killed It (Thanks, Elizabeth M!)
- New White House – Press Corps Rules & The First Amendment (Politico)
- How do Americans view ‘fake news’ today? | PBS NewsHour
- pts literacy efforts in schools | PBS NewsHour
- People who know how the news is made resist conspiratorial thinking | Ars Technica
- The Post makes an entertaining, timely case for freedom of the press – Vox
- ‘The Shed at Dulwich’ was London’s top-rated restaurant. Just one problem: It didn’t exist. – The Washington Post
- Inside Center for Humane Technology: Tech creators are pushing back
- For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned. – The New York Times
- How false news can spread – Noah Tavlin | TED-Ed
- Thirty countries use ‘armies of opinion shapers’ to manipulate democracy – report | Technology | The Guardian
- “Now we know what a digital native is…” – Ira David Socol – Medium
- Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
- Truth Isn’t the Problem—We Are – WSJ
- Facebook bans Trump campaign’s data analytics firm for taking user data – The Washington Post
- Putin’s Victory Is Assured In Russia’s Election : NPR
- Putin’s Strategy Is To Glorify Russia’s Past, Journalist Says : NPR
- Layoffs Hit ‘Chicago Tribune’ Newsroom : NPR
- The Man Who Knew Too Little – The New York Times
- NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
- BBC launches ‘fake news’ game for young people that puts them at ‘heart of newsroom’ amid a breaking news story – Press Gazette
- Quick start to verifying online media
- Jane Elizabeth on Twitter: “Fact? Opinion? If such things confuse you, please consult Jack the first-grader. h/t @lorikelley22… “
- ‘This is the hardest reporting there is’: Inside ProPublica’s correction on Gina Haspel – The Washington Post
- ProPublica Leads Media Into Correction of Murky CIA Story – The New York Times
- Soft power — not government censorship — is the key to fighting disinformation and “fake news” » Nieman Journalism Lab
- On Twitter, fake news spreads faster than the truth – Vox
- Nate Silver on Twitter: “When someone regularly cites outlier polls instead of the polling average it’s an **extremely** reliable tell that they’re a bullshitter.”
- Factfulness_Excerpt.pdf
- Hans Rosling: The best stats you’ve ever seen | TED Talk
- Why I want to stop talking about the “developing” world | Bill Gates
- Trump launches second day of attacks against the media – POLITICO
- Reliable Sources podcast: How consumers can fact check the news in the age of misinformation
- For the love of facts! | TED Talks
- Recent Research | Poynter – A global leader in journalism.
- This tool makes verifying crowd sizes a breeze – YouTube
- Watch Jordan Peele use AI to make Barack Obama deliver a PSA about fake news – The Verge
- Fake war videos are using footage from gamers on YouTube | Poynter
- Wikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The ‘Fake News’ Era : NPR
- This Former Tea Party Activist Is Teaching People To Spot Fake News
- Fact-checking triples over four years – Duke Reporters’ Lab
- (38) Unfakery – Home
- NO, We’re Not Living in a Post-Fact World
- Is it satire or fake news? Depends on who you ask | Poynter
- After a week of Russian propaganda, I was questioning everything | PBS NewsHour
- Why we love to like junk news that reaffirms our beliefs | PBS NewsHour
- Online anger is gold to this junk-news pioneer | PBS NewsHour
- Miles To Go podcast takes a behind-the-scenes tour of junk news | PBS NewsHour
- Did exactly 4,645 people die in Hurricane Maria? Nope. – The Washington Post
- Seth MacFarlane on Twitter: “A simple means by which to begin the rehabilitation of a deeply fractured nation would be through the restoration of the Fairness Doctrine, which required all TV and radio broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on all issues
- Everything you need to know about the Fairness Doctrine in one post – The Washington Post
- What Elon Musk doesn’t understand about journalism | Salon.com
- Power of Political Cartoons – Kavanaugh
- 15 Historic Cartoons That Changed the World
- Gary Hart Scandal & The Media
- Correlation is NOT Causation (A FUN Take!)
- How Social Media is Changing the Presidency
- 23 Charts & Maps Showing the World is Getting Much Better
- “HE’S BROKEN THE MEDIA” – Normalizing Chaos by Not Taking Sides
- TRUMP & Fact-Checker Poll: Few Americans Believe Him (VIDEO- 3 mins, Article, Results)
- Beyond ‘No Comment’: White House & Media Questions
- Buzzfeed’s Stumble @ Time When Press Faces Greatest Scrutiny
- Political Campaigns Get Colorful (Not just red, white & blue anymore)
- Press Freedom in U.S. Falls Again
- How Newsroom Leaders Wrestled with Covering a Tumultuous Year (NPR :9 mins)