Academic librarians were quick to react to the threat posed by Internet competition. In 1989, half a dozen years before the first official release of Netscape, they recognized the explosion in ...

It’s a common complaint among librarians and scholars: When sent out to research almost any topic, students run first to Google and take what the search engine has to offer, whether or not it is the ...

“If you can’t demystify the news, then that creates a vacuum and disinformation can flow in there,” says Treasa Murphy, a producer with Radio Kerry in Ireland. Treasa and Radio Kerry general manager ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Jan. 22, 2020) – The Poynter Institute announces it has received funding from Facebook to launch a national media literacy program called the MediaWise Voter Project (#MVP). The ...

Information Literacy prepares students to be critical and effective information seekers and users, both in general and in their disciplines. Students come to Hope College well-accustomed to the ...

MediaWise, the Poynter Institute’s media literacy initiative, is partnering with DataLEADS, a digital media and technology company, and its media literacy program, FactShala, to launch the first of ...

Editor’s Note: We live in an increasingly polluted information environment in which bad actors seek to manipulate us individually and undermine our social cohesion collectively. Whether through ...

Corrected: A previous version of this piece misspelled Michael Ford’s name. A cautionary tale: Not long ago, I was assisting a school district that had adopted a prominently endorsed literacy program.