by Marcy Burstiner | 21 Jun 2024 | Journalism, Media Literacy, News Decoder Tips
What’s the point of reporting on an unsolvable problem? Instead, identify solutions people can act on. News Decoder’s Program & Communications Manager Cathal O’Luanaigh gives a workshop on podcasting. Credit: News Decoder Journalism can be a...
by Marcy Burstiner | 23 May 2024 | Culture, Educators' Catalog, History, Media Literacy
Historians dig up stories that document our past the way archeologists sift through relics. The more they learn the more we realize how much we don’t know. A stack of books in a bookstore that tell only one version of the world. (Illustration by News Decoder)...
Historians dig up stories that document our past the way archeologists sift through relics. The more they learn the more we realize how much we don’t know. News Decoder’s Editorial News Director Marcy Burstiner examines history and the versions of history that we’re told.
Exercise: Explore the idea of stories being told from different perspectives and of certain histories being silenced or underrepresented. Choose a current topic and have students look at it from different perspectives. What kinds of histories might be forged through telling the story in different ways?
by Marcy Burstiner | 9 Apr 2024 | Journalism, Politics, United States
If the 2020 election in the United States was any indication, there will be a lot of angry people in this go-around regardless of the result. An imagined polling station next to a gun shop. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced exclusively for News...
by Marcy Burstiner | 2 Apr 2024 | Journalism, Media Literacy
Ask an AI app if it will kill off journalism and you get a nuanced answer. But from a human point of view, things seem more black and white. A room filled with computer servers serves as a newsroom. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced exclusively...
by Marcy Burstiner | 6 Feb 2024 | Art, Culture
Millions of people trek to famous museums like the Louvre in Paris and Tate Modern in London. But what you’ll find in Oslo and Riga might also be worth a visit. An exhibit of brains in jars at the Rīga Stradiņš University Anatomy Museum, Riga, Latvia. (Photo by...