The New York Times – Katherine Schulten
“How do you know if something you read is true? Why should you care?…The concept of “media literacy” has been around for decades, but “news literacy” is a new field that is growing as fast as the boundaries around old definitions of journalism are being dismantled…The digital revolution is characterized by a flood of information and misinformation that news consumers can access from anywhere at any time…This superabundance of information has made it imperative that citizens learn to judge the reliability of news reports and other sources of information that is passed along their social networks.”(more)