Making Sense of the News: The Principles of News Analysis
Help yourself and your students separate fact from fiction on social media and the internet. Learn how to become a more discerning news consumer, amid a flood of misleading headlines, viral videos, sponsored content, propaganda, and assertion masquerading as fact-based news and information.
The program includes an overview of News Literacy, techniques to critically analyze news reports and social media posts, curriculum materials that you can immediately introduce into the classroom.
Participants will receive 15 NYS CTLEhours.
Program OUTLINE
This program includes both self-paced and live online instruction and will cover the following topics:
- Developing a News GPS – Synchronous Session, March 1, 2022; 7-8:30 PM
- Truth and Verification I
- Truth and Verification II
- Deconstructing Social Media
- Fairness, Bias and Balance in the News – Synchronous Session, March 15, 2022, 7-8:30 PM
Registration INFORMATion
The cost of this 5-week, 15 CTLE-hour workshop is $149 per person. Seating is limited.
10% discount if you register for both workshops.
News Awareness and Engagement
Learn how an understanding of key News Literacy concepts can foster a heightened appreciation for civic engagement and digital citizenship in students.
Topics include: the Power of Information and the Global Battle for a Free Press, What Makes News and Who Decides, Watchdog Journalism, News, Opinion, and Partisan Advocacy, and Citizenship Skills for the Digital Age, including how to develop a diverse and healthy "news diet" and practice responsible "citizen journalism."
Participants will receive 15 NYS CTLE hours.
PROGRAM oUTLINE
This program includes both self-paced and live online instruction and will cover the following topics:
- The Power of Information and the Battle for a Free Press – Synchronous Session, March 2, 2022, 7-8:30 PM
- What Makes News and Who Decides
- Watchdog Journalism
- News, Opinion and Partisan Advocacy
- Citizenship Skills for the Digital Age – Synchronous Session, March 16, 2022, 7-8:30 PM
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The cost of this 5-week, 15 CTLE-hour workshop is $149 per person. Seating is limited.
10% discount if you register for both workshops.
Instructors
Dr. Jonathan Anzalone
Jonathan joined the Center for News Literacy in 2007 as one of the center’s first Graduate Teaching Fellows. After completing his PhD with the Stony Brook History Department in 2012, Jonathan stayed at the School of Journalism as a News Literacy lecturer and recitation leader. He also serves as Assistant Director for the Center.
Howard Schneider
Howard Schneider is the founding dean of the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, spearheading the team that developed the proposal for SUNY’s first School of Journalism. For more than 35 years. Schneider was a reporter and editor at Newsday. For nearly 18 of those years, he was managing editor and then editor.