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  • 6 days ago | project-censored.org | Shealeigh Voitl |Andy Lee Roth

    By Shealeigh Voitl, Andy Lee Roth, and Project CensoredStudents today need critical media literacy skills more than ever. Beyond Fact-Checking provides resources for educators to help them think critically about point-of-view and competing perspectives in news stories about current events. This practical guide introduces the concept of media "frames" and provides six detailed lesson plans to help students learn to "frame-check" news stories.

  • Mar 4, 2025 | projectcensored.org | Andy Lee Roth

    1.8K It began with a man rowing a 1,200-pound pumpkin down the Missouri River. That was the first news item I saw on TV after one of the major cable networks broadcast horrifying, graphic footage of the deadly airstrikes into Gaza launched by Israel Defense Forces on October 7th. The jarring disconnect between the two news items spoke volumes about what’s wrong with corporate news and the version of the world it attempts to sell us.

  • Feb 24, 2025 | rjionline.org | Andy Lee Roth

    Resources to help journalists and newsrooms confront power imbalances by promoting industry accountability and public understandingToday, I am launching Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists (ALFJ), a collection of practical introductory resources to encourage and enable critical reporting on algorithms and their social impacts. The ALFJ website was developed with the support of the Reynolds Journalism Institute and in consultation with experts in journalism, computer science, and media literacy.

  • Feb 24, 2025 | editorandpublisher.com | Andy Lee Roth

    Posted Monday, February 24, 2025 10:15 am Today, I am launching Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists (ALFJ), a collection of practical introductory resources to encourage and enable critical reporting on algorithms and their social impacts.

  • Feb 4, 2025 | rjionline.org | Andy Lee Roth

    Learning from a newspaper’s plan to deploy an AI-powered “bias meter”In December 2024, the owner of the Los Angeles Times announced plans to incorporate an AI-powered “bias meter” into the newspaper’s reporting.