The News Literacy Project: How to Know What to Believe

The News Literacy Project: How to Know What to Believe

"People who are citizens in an information age have got to learn how to be journalists." - Kathy Kiely, USA Today reporter The 24-hour news cycle and the explosion of sources continuously available online gives today's students access to unprecedented amounts of information. Yet they are also c...

Euphemisms, Cliches and Redundancies - Part Three

Euphemisms, Cliches and Redundancies - Part Three

Real people in real conversations rarely use as many hackneyed phras­es as journalists do in their scripts or in print. In this, the last installment of Jeff Rowe’s series on Euphemisms, Clichés and Redundancies, see how many clichés you can find in this one-act play called:

Family Matters

Family Matters

Screenwriting exercises about families appeal to students of any age, especially those who have ever wished they lived in a more liberal household or that a mysterious letter would show up one day with the news it was time to take their rightful place as a freshman at wizards school. For younge...

Wired? Yes. . .  but Inspired?

Wired? Yes. . . but Inspired?

We may be wired, but are we inspired? Or, to put it more poetically: After you're blogged, twittered and flattened And are ready to jump into the fray You're still left with the age-old question Just what was it you wanted to say?

The Quintessential Element

The Quintessential Element

It would be nice if a TV audience could be captivated solely by the depth, profundity, and worthiness of our program content. Unfortunately, quality (however that's defined) is not often related to popularity (we know how that's defined: by ratings). Put simply: nothing much matters in television...

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The News Literacy Project: How to Know What to Believe

The News Literacy Project: How to Know What to Believe

"People who are citizens in an information age have got to learn how to be journalists."...

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Euphemisms, Cliches and Redundancies - Part Three

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