In a push-back against people who can’t tell a real news source from an amphetamine-laden hamster with a Tumblr blog, San Francisco public radio station KQED this week announced it is launching a free ...

The International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) Disarming Disinformation initiative is a three-year program, supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that aims to slow the spread of disinformation ...

MediaWise, the Poynter Institute’s digital media literacy initiative, is expanding its international reach to Spanish-speaking Latin America. One year after developing WhatsApp-based media literacy ...

The global market intelligence firm International Data Corporation estimated in 2024 that more data had been created in the three preceding years than in all of history before that. With this trend ...

The average teenager spends more than three hours a day watching TV, but only 43 minutes reading, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, data which suggests that as important as English ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — With a lot of information on the internet, there is a tendency for users to get burnt out. Bakersfield College is offering a course that can help navigate digital spaces.

As dozens of Cupertino high schoolers strolled into class one January morning they were met with an image projected on the board — Donald Trump praying alone in a church. “Is there anything strange ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beginning next year, California's public school students will be required to take media literacy courses that will help them ...

Sue Ellen Christian works with interns and Kalamazoo Valley Museum staff on her exhibit. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A new exhibit at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum puts perceptions of the media in the limelight.

The Instagram headline was pithy and alarming: “Head of Pfizer Research: Covid Vaccine is Female Sterilization.” And the report, from a murky source, could have had real-world consequences, coming in ...

UCLA’s Teacher Education Program plans to discontinue one of its signature course offerings, faculty said. The program’s ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Yonty Friesem of Columbia College Chicago about a new law in Illinois that requires high school students to receive lessons on media literacy. An Illinois law went into ...