Find two current news stories, for the most recent presidential election, evaluate one to two sources from each story, to verify the credibility of the sources themselves. Additionally if you find any misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, or biases please elaborate on them.
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Three different types of news media (The Impact of IoT on News Media in the Smart Age). (2022). [Digital Image]. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360878166/figure/fig1/AS:1160107857580059@1653602675277/Three-different-types-of-news-media.jpg
News literacy is the ability to determine the credibility of news information and to recognize the standards of fact-based journalism to know what to trust, share and act on (The Center for News Literacy, 2024). According to Project Information Literacy’s recent study on how youth today interact with news, it was determined that over half of today’s youth are “multi-modal” consumers of news at 67% of survey respondents citing five reoccurring news sources: peer discussions, discussion with professors, social media, online newspapers, and news feeds/blogs. Of that 67% roughly 93% used discussions with peers as their main news source, 70% engaged with professors for their daily news discussions, 89% utilized social media, 76% reported using online newspapers, and 55% reported news feeds/blogs as a source of regular news consumption (Head et al., 2018). The goal of news literacy is to teach students to think, not how to think about what they are reading, seeing, consuming.
References
Center for News Literacy. (2024). What is news literacy? – center for news literacy. Centerfornewsliteracy.org; News Literacy. https://centerfornewsliteracy.org/what-is-news-literacy/
Head, A. J., Wihbey, J., Metaxas, P. T., MacMillan, M., & Cohen, D. (2018). How students engage with news. Project Information Literacy | Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED591129.pdf
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