These resources can help you gain a better understanding of news literacy and improve your own skills in this area.
News Literacy: Global Perspectives for the Newsroom and the Classroom by
News Literacy gathers leading scholars, educators, and media makers to explore new approaches to thinking about, examining, and evaluating news media and civic engagement around these fundamental questions: What are the most pressing issues in news, media, and culture in a converged, digital, and global media age? What are the best educational practices to foster media literate understanding, engagement, and expression across borders, across cultures, and across divides? The book will prepare future media practitioners (and citizens) to embrace new media environments that can simultaneously empower their craft and their civic voice.
The Praeger Handbook of Media Literacy by
This groundbreaking two-volume set provides readers with the information they need to grasp new developments in the swiftly evolving field of media literacy.
Evaluating Media Bias by
Media bias has been a hot-button issue for several decades and it features prominently in the post-2016 political conversation. Yet, it receives only spotty treatment in existing materials aimed at political communication or introductory American politics courses. Evaluating Media Bias is a brief, supplemental resource that provides an academically informed but broadly accessible overview of the major concepts and controversies involving media bias.
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