Critical Media Literacy

Newspaper Front Pages (Freedom Forum).
Collection of newspaper front pages
from around the world, updated daily.

• List of over 150 Independent News Sources (from Project Censored)

• Media Literacy Guide: How to Detect Bias in News Media (FAIR, 2022)

• 10 Investigative Reporting Outlets to Follow (Moyers On Democracy, Jan 13, 2017)  

• The Biggest Secret: My Life as a NY Times Reporter (James Risen, The Intercept, Jan 3, 2018) 

Comedians Vs. Journalists (Vox, April 3, 2017, 6:53 mins)

• The Existential Issue: The People We Call Journalists: How Tech Platforms Decide What Counts as Journalism (Columbia Journalism Review, Spring 2021)

• How corporate media threatens our democracy: This is a crisis we can no longer afford to ignore (Bernie Sanders, In These Times, Jan 26, 2017)

• How Newsrooms Help Destroy Black Lives (Collette Watson, Freepress, July 19, 2017)

• How The New York Times, CNN, and The Huffington Post approach publishing on platforms (Joseph Lichterman, NiemanLab, March 30, 2017)

• Infographic: From town halls to targeting, political advertising has come a long way (Marty Swant, AdWeek, June 28, 2016)  

• Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS" (Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, Feb 29, 2016)

• The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2020 (Museum of the Moving Image). Teaching political ads in the classroom.

• Making Sense of the News: Distinguishing News from Sponsored Content (Michael Spike, Moyers On Democracy, Feb 22, 2017)

• Media Are Literally Copy-and-Pasting ICE Press Releases (Adam Johnson, Fair, May 12, 2017)

• Media’s Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn (Adam Johnson, Fair, Aug 3, 2017) 

• Meet the Riot Squad: Right-Wing Reporters Whose Viral Videos are Used to Smear BLM (Robert Mackey & Travis Mannon, The Intercept, May 13, 2021)

• Megyn Kelly: Alex Jones’ views on Sandy Hook are ‘revolting’ — but my goal is ‘to shine a light’ (Dylan Stableford, yahoo! news, June 13, 2017)

• NYTimes, The Word You’re Looking For Is CORRUPTION (Indi Samarajiva, Medium, Oct 10, 2020)

• The New York Times was accused of siding with police because of ill-placed passive voice (Dana Sitar, Poynter, June 2, 2020)

• News and Media Literacy Toolkit (Common Sense Education & Media Literacy Council, 2019) 

• News Lit quiz: How news-literate are you? (News Literacy Project, 2020)

• Newspaper Map. Interactive map of newspapers worldwide, updated daily, in different languages (English is in yellow).

• Newsrooms are shrinking, but the PR industry is growing faster than ever (John Sullivan, Business Insider, May 2, 2011) 

• Open Records Project: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the Movement (Center for Constitutional Rights) 

• Political TV Ads Archive (Political Archive)

• The Stink Test: Validating Resources (Ice Drilling Education)

There, I Fixed It for You … Corporate Media Headlines
Revised as Though They Were Journalism
(Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, FAIR, June 5, 2020)

• Trump has turned his words into weapons: And he's winning the linguistic war (George P. Lakoff & Gil Duran, The Guardian, June 13, 2018)

• U.S. Government Sanitizes Vietnam War History (Marjorie Cohn, Truthout, Oct 16, 2014) 

• Voice of Witness: Amplifying Unheard Voices (Voice of Witness). Oral storytelling and photography. 

• Why do journalists use passive voice covering protests and police? And why we should avoid it (Natasha Haverty, North Country Public Radio, June 16, 2020)

• Woman who recorded George Floyd's murder receives honorary Pulitzer Prize (Brett Wilkins, Truthout, June 12, 2021)

• WWII Propaganda: State of Deception (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

• Frontline Transparency Project (here is access to hours of original reporting and source material that goes into the making of the Frontline documentaries since 2017).

• Combating the disinfodemic: Working for truth in the time of COVID-19 (UNESCO, 2020). For related policy briefs from UNESCO, click here.

• Community Toolkit for Addressing Health Misinformation (U.S. Surgeon General, 2021)

• Disinfo Discussions: A Video and Podcast Series (The Aspen Institute)

• Disinformation and ‘Fake News’ Report (UK House of Commons, Feb 18, 2019)

• The Foundations of Disinformation and Misinformation (Knowledge Center Blogs from the Aspen Institute)

• A guide to anti-misinformation actions around the world (Daniel Funke & Daniela Flamini, Poynter., Jan. 9, 2021)

• Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review (open access publication)

• European You Verify quiz (lessons and quiz to identify misinformation)