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News Literacy in the Digital Age

Posted by: Susanna Thompson (smthomps@colby.edu) on Mon, March 16, 2009, 11:29 p.m.
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Lovejoy Visiting Journalists in Residence, David Shribman of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Cindy Skrzycki of Bloomberg News, discussed the the importance of news literacy as citizens become increasingly dependent on digital sources for their news.

As traditional print newspapers fail around the country, consumers of 'free' digital news must be critical and learn how to judge the credibility and reliability of what they read online.

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