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4 April 2020
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In North Carolina's Mecklenburg County, Spanish is more commonly spoken than English, yet information about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic wasn't being translated from English before being distributed. To address th...
New Hampshire Business Review
Peter Nakos
2 April 2020
Rochester, New Hampshire, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
The Rochester School District in New Hampshire has figured out a way to connect students with limited or no internet access during the pandemic—school bus hotspots. The school district has equipped nine school buses w...
27 March 2020
Campbell Hill, Illinois, United States
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800-1500 Words
Illinois’ rural Trico school district didn’t have access to remote learning technology, so they turned to paper. With closure as the response to COVID-19, teachers and administrators had to find ways to cope in a regi...
27 March 2020
Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
Senior centers in Maryland are offering media literacy courses to discuss fact-checking and how to spot fake news stories online. A recent study by researchers at Princeton and NYU found that Facebook users over 65 a...
26 March 2020
Vietnam
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800-1500 Words
South Korea's response to the coronavirus has been held up as exemplary. How is Vietnam achieving similar results with fewer resources and a smaller budget?
The Eagle-Tribune
Pat Grossmith
23 March 2020
New Hampshire, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Many counties in New Hampshire are addressing the digital divide by loaning laptops to students without access to a computer at home and providing paper assignments to students who don’t have access to the internet. T...
7 March 2020
Mexico City, Mexico
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800-1500 Words
The underrepresentation of women in technology and computer science has led to the creation of Geochicas, a group of women who recruit and train female, open source mappers across the world. Open source mapping is a m...
3 March 2020
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
The Rural Broadband Cooperative took matters into its own hands after local and state politicians failed to provide high-speed internet for their rural Pennsylvania county. Telecommunications companies did not conside...
2 March 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
The freewheeling discussion platform Reddit has spawned many conspiracy theories, but it also plays host to anti-disinformation activists. By striking back at those who spread propaganda and potentially harmful disinf...
20 February 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Some schools are formally adding media literacy education to their curricula. Lessons train students to spot fake news and navigate the non-stop media cycle.
11 February 2020
Houston, Texas, United States
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800-1500 Words
Around the United States, news organizations are taking a new approach to the use of mugshots in their crime reporting. While still the norm in many places, newsrooms like the Houston Chronicle have stopped publishing...
29 January 2020
Helinski, Finland
Text
800-1500 Words
Building successful resistance to fake information begins with primary education. Finland’s national school curriculum encourages information and media literacy along with critical thinking. The pilot program consists...
28 December 2019
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Under 800 Words
Eliminating overdue fines at libraries allows low-income patrons to reengage with public resources. The Denver Public Library replaced fines with a lending restriction, meaning that patrons could only check out new it...
27 December 2019
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
Allowing news consumers to more carefully vet media outlets can help stem the proliferation of fake news. NewsGuard, a web browser plug-in gives users a “nutrition label” for news websites by ranking them on a scale o...
26 December 2019
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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800-1500 Words
Ahmed Albasheer is an Iraqi journalist who uses a combination of humor and grassroots organizing to teach youth in Iraq and across the world about their government's corruption with his show, "The Albasheer Show.” He ...
8 November 2019
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Over the past dozen years, The Commercial Appeal, once the top morning newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee, slowly succumbed to the same ownership changes and downsizing that has plagued numerous other local papers across...
8 November 2019
Austin, Texas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Non-partisan, watchdog journalism has formed a financially healthy platform for Texas Tribune in its first decade, filling a public-interest gap left by shrinkage in the number of statehouse reporters from 95 in 1989 ...
16 October 2019
Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
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1500-3000 Words
All over the country, budgets for local newspapers are drying up and these small institutions are dying with them. But in Harvard, Massachusetts (which has no connection with the university), one local paper may have ...
8 October 2019
Mosul, Iraq
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Under 800 Words
Disseminating knowledge means making websites, articles, and books available in more languages beyond English. A partnership between students at the University of Mosul and the nonprofit, Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB), i...
26 September 2019
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Media and Climate Change Observatory at the University of Colorado - Boulder has been tracking media coverage of climate change in an effort to improve and provide analysis of it. As awareness of the climate crisi...
26 July 2019
Brazil
Text
800-1500 Words
Promoting more diverse and inclusive narratives takes a publisher interested more in social purpose than profits. Vira Letra, and independent publisher in Brazil, has employed a cost and profit-sharing business model ...
23 July 2019
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Philadelphia Inquirer reporter-columnist Helen Ubiñas launched a series of pop-up newsrooms to talk to people in neighborhoods that usually only attract fleeting news coverage over violence and other problems. Ubiñas'...
27 June 2019
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Fact-based, data-driven, and solution-oriented journalism can shift the media paradigm from asking “what” to asking “how.” Solutions journalism, known also as constructive journalism in Europe, focuses on data and evi...
4 June 2019
Stockton, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Following a Supreme Court mandate requiring California to address prison overcrowding, the state has taken numerous initiatives to reduce sentences, relocate inmates, set higher accountability measures for law enforce...
18 May 2019
Helsinki, Finland
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Teaching students to fact check encourages resilience and builds resistance to the post-truth phenomenon. In Finland, a school curriculum implemented at the national level equips elementary and high school students wi...
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