RESOURCES for How to Survive the News: Beyond ‘Real VS. Fake’ (PCC Community Educ. course)
STORIES on WHY THE NEWS MATTERS
- (The New York Times, April 2025)
- By Andrew Butz – Election 2024: Well-Being & the News [scroll down to “Decoding…”] (from PCC’s CTLE, Oct. 2024)
RESEARCH on NEWS MEDIA (U.S. focus)
- Ownership (more corporate conglomeration — esp from Nixon, Reagan, & Clinton admin policies, plus tech change)…
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* (Go to 7/27/21 “6 key takeaways…”).
MEDIA LITERACY Organizations, platforms & apps…
- – FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
- News Article Eval (PCC Library – link to EasyBib ‘Fake News’ i.d.)
- (compared across political spectrum of major U.S. media)
- (video resources for critical analysis)
- (advocating freer, less oligopolist, more accountable info media)
- (1st rule: Acknowledge your AI use in any work. By PCC Library.)
- (+ << but a bit basic?>>)
- << over-reliance on ‘Lateral Reading’?>>
- (U. of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Center)
- -Poynter Instit. (founded by Tampa Bay Times)
- (Brill & Co.)
- << Quick comparisons. BUT the ‘Left-Center-Right’ paradigm is shallow for suggesting ‘Left’ media are as extreme as ‘Right’ (…Nope!) >>
- (in-depth studies, e.g. focusing on audiences)
- – PDF download
- (with J. Learning Lab, partnering w/ 100 journalism schools & 45,000+ journalists)
- Alternative News & Info Media
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- (USAID-funded << 2025 update: SITE REMOVED by Trump Admin/DOGE/Musk.>>)