Nationwide Information Literacy Week 2023 explores declining public belief in information media

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — This 12 months’s fourth annual Nationwide Information Literacy Week, from Jan. 23-27, will encourage information customers to cease the flood of misinformation and discover ways to establish reliable information. The week consists of occasions and sources that may discover the advanced points referring to declining belief in nationwide information media and spotlight profitable efforts to assist rebuild credibility.

In keeping with the Edelman Belief Barometer religion within the media is falling throughout the globe, and significantly in the USA. Solely 39% of American adults stated they belief the media in 2022, down six factors from 2021. On the identical time, concern about false and deceptive info is at an all-time excessive. This 12 months’s information literacy occasion tackles these challenges with free suggestions, instruments and conversations, each on-line and in-person.

Nationwide Information Literacy Week is co-presented by the Information Literacy Challenge, a nationwide nonpartisan schooling nonprofit and the nation’s main supplier of reports literacy sources, and The E.W. Scripps Firm, one of many nation’s largest TV information organizations. The week goals to raise the position of reports literacy and a free press in our democracy by empowering everybody with the abilities they should kind truth from fiction.  

“The American public is struggling to make sense of the crush of reports and data they’re confronted with every day, as misinformation surges on social media and native information shops shrink,” stated Charles Salter, president and CEO of NLP. “Information literacy expertise assist media customers perceive what makes information reliable, and Nationwide Information Literacy Week will assist make sure that extra folks can confidently navigate the information.”

To assist bolster public belief within the information, this 12 months’s theme will study previous missteps made by newsroom choice makers and assist demystify how the information will get made at credible shops.  

“A wholesome democracy will depend on an knowledgeable and educated citizenry and a reliable journalism trade,” stated Adam Symson, president and CEO of Scripps. “For this 12 months’s Nationwide Information Literacy Week, we’re shining a lightweight on the information gathering and reporting course of to additional improve openness and transparency with our native and nationwide information audiences throughout the nation.”

Two of this 12 months’s occasions shall be livestreamed and in-person.

• We remorse the error: Public belief and media accountability: 6 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 23, on the Nationwide Press Membership in Washington, D.C.

Nationwide newsroom leaders from the Washington Submit, NPR, Axios, Scripps and extra focus on the teachings they’ve realized from previous errors – editorial, enterprise, staffing and in any other case.

• Belief points: How Chicago information shops construct credibility of their communities: 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 24, on the Medill College of Journalism at Northwestern College in Evanston, IL.

Modern journalists from the Chicago Solar-Instances, Block Membership, Metropolis Bureau and Northwestern will clarify how they’re incomes belief by involving their audiences within the editorial course of.

For educators, NLP and NBCUniversal Information Group will host on Jan. 27 a digital NewsLitCamp®, an expert studying expertise that connects lecturers with working towards journalists. Periods are designed to assist educators construct information literacy experience they will deliver again to their school rooms.

Different livestreamed discussions will embrace members from the American Psychological Affiliation, KQED, San Francisco’s NPR-member station; Teenagers for Press Freedom, a nationwide youth-led group; EduColor, an educator advocacy group that helps communities of coloration; and misinformation consultants from NLP. Go to NewsLitWeek.org for a full itemizing of occasions, members and supporting organizations.

Listed here are extra methods the general public, educators and journalists can get entangled:

• Watch our public service announcement, which inspires viewers to “cease the flood” of misinformation by studying the way to establish credible sources of reports and data.
• Go to NewsLiteracyWeek.org to study concerning the occasions taking place over the course of the week and particular actions you possibly can take to enhance your individual information literacy expertise.
• Share your help for information literacy through social media through the use of the Nationwide Information Literacy Week social media toolkit.
• Be part of the dialog on social media utilizing the #NewsLiteracyWeek hashtag.

In regards to the Information Literacy Challenge

The Information Literacy Challenge, the nation’s main supplier of reports literacy schooling, is a nonpartisan schooling nonprofit that’s constructing a nationwide motion to advance the follow of reports literacy all through American society, creating higher knowledgeable, extra engaged and extra empowered people – and in the end a stronger democracy.

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About Scripps

The E.W. Scripps Firm (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media firm targeted on making a better-informed world. As one of many nation’s largest native TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with high quality, goal native journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks attain almost each American by means of the nationwide information shops Scripps Information and Courtroom TV and well-liked leisure manufacturers ION, Bounce, Grit, Laff, ION Thriller, Defy TV and TrueReal. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee. Based in 1878, Scripps has held for many years to the motto, “Give gentle and the folks will discover their very own means.” 

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