News literacy essential skill in our era of misinformation | Columns
In my favorite daydream, I am back in my college newsroom in the early 1970s, as student reporters clack away on manual typewriters and student editors tamp tobacco into their pipes and scrawl comments on sheets of dingy, gray newsprint. “What is that?”…
National News Literacy Week: Navigating social media
This week is National News Literacy Week, and in 2022, more people are getting their news and other content from social media platforms. Annie Margaret, an assistant professor at the Atlas Institute at the University of Colorado in Boulder is hoping to…
In Our View: All I want for Christmas is improved media literacy
‘Tis the season of hope, faith and joy. So, like everybody else, the Columbian’s Editorial Board is putting together a wish list. Of course, we will ask Santa for conscientious elected representatives, and free and fair elections, and a new bridge.…