Today is national News Engagement Day (NED), which offers opportunities to get involved with the news media and to learn more about them.
It is a day when people nationwide are encouraged to use or react to the news media and to learn more about news reporting principles and processes. Locally, NED is the first day to submit entries in the essay and visual works contests that are part of Eau Claire’s “Beyond the Headlines” (BTH) programming.
Today is News Engagement Day: does news still matter? Tell us why, or why not
Today marks the fourth annual News Engagement Day, a yearly event created to encourage engagement with news and promote understanding about the principles and processes of journalism in a democratic society. It is sponsored nationally by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the world’s largest association of journalism and mass communication […]
Washington Post columnist tells educators truth may not win out over falsehoods spread by technology
By David Gordon, Associate Editor The technology used for propaganda may – in today’s changed mass media environment – have outpaced and overwhelmed the ability to report the truth, according to Washington Post columnist and associate editor Eugene Robinson. Robinson spoke Wednesday in Chicago at the 2017 conference of the Association for Education in Journalism […]