When did your organization launch and why? Launched in 2016, the Civic Imagination Project taps the civic imagination (our collective vision for what a better tomorrow might look like) to bridge perceived cultural gaps between diverse communities. Over the last…
Ashley M. Williams is the Founder and CEO of RIZZARR. She is also a NAMLE Board Member and was recently named an honoree of Forbes’ Next 1000 entrepreneurs. What do you do? Through my company RIZZARR, my team and I…
When did your organization launch and why? The Journalistic Learning Initiative (JLI) launched in 2015 to empower students to discover their voice, improve academic outcomes, and engage in self-directed learning through project-based storytelling. What does your organization do? What are…
Sumi Dey is the Office Coordinator at the National Association for Media Literacy Education and Lead Designer for Emerson College’s Mapping Impactful Media Literacy Project. What do you do? I am a socially-engaged artist and designer who is dedicated to…
When did your organization launch and why? The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) launched in 2013 to combat the most pervasive bias in news reporting: the bias towards the negative. Put simply, journalists define “news” as “what’s wrong.” But this definition gives a…
This report, Media Literacy Standards to Counter Truth Decay, is one in a series that is part of the Countering Truth Decay initiative. RAND defines “Truth Decay” as the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life. This…
Press Release Cyber Florida, Florida Center for Instructional Technology and New America Launch New Partnership to Improve “Cyber Citizenship” Skills for K-12 Students Dec. 16, 2020 Tampa, Fla. – In an increasingly digital world, new skills are needed to thrive as…
Emily Bailin Wells, Ed.D., is an adjunct instructor at New York University’s School of Professional Studies and she is the founder of Holding | Space: De/Centering Whiteness. She is also the NAMLE Conference 2021 Research Chair. What do you do?…
When did your organization launch and why? Kids are living their lives online. We need to equip them with healthy models. Teenagers spend over 7 hours a day outside of school online. Tweens are close behind at 4 hours per…