RESOURCES for How to Survive the News: Beyond ‘Real VS. Fake’ (PCC Community Educ. course)
RESEARCH on NEWS MEDIA (U.S. focus)
- Ownership (more corporate conglomeration — esp from Nixon, Reagan, & Clinton admin policies, plus tech change)…
* Projects.IQ.harvard.edu/FutureofMedia/index-us-mainstream-media-ownership &
* PewResearch.org/topic/news-habits-media/news-media-trends/ (Go to 7/27/21 “6 key takeaways…”).
MEDIA LITERACY Organizations, platforms & apps…
- Media Literacy Guide: Detect Bias in News – FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
- News Article Eval (PCC Library – link to EasyBib ‘Fake News’ i.d.)
- CLARITY – Breaking news (compared across political spectrum of major U.S. media)
- Checkology? | The NEWS LITERACY PROJECT (+Informable app << but a bit basic?>>)
- Ground.News << over-reliance on ‘Lateral Reading’?>>
- Debunking False Stories (w/ Video) – FactCheck.org (U. of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Center)
- PolitiFact.com (‘Truth-o-Meter’) -Poynter Instit. (founded by Tampa Bay Times)
- NewsGuard -Trust Ratings (Brill & Co.)
- Media Bias Chart – Ad Fontes Media << Useful for quick comparisons. But the ‘Left-Center-Right’ paradigm can be shallow, for example in suggesting ‘Left’ media are as extreme as ‘Right’ (…Nope!) >>
- Media Insight Project, AP-NORC (in-depth studies, e.g. focusing on audiences)
- Countering Disinformation Guide (USAID-funded, international outlook)
- Detecting Disinformation (US elections – Guides.Vote/Paul-Loeb) – PDF download
- Solutions Journalism Network (with J. Learning Lab, partnering w/ 100 journalism schools & 45,000+ journalists)