by Norma Hilton | 3 Aug 2023 | Educators' Catalog, Journalism, Media Literacy
Making sure that information is true isn’t easy. Our correspondent takes you through the arduous process of fact-checking a news story. Illustration by Ana Schwartz for News Decoder When I first started out in journalism as a 17-year-old, I had never heard of...
Correspondent Norma Hilton models the process of fact-checking in this important article for students and adults alike. In a world inundated with instantaneous information at our fingertips, knowing how to distinguish fact from fiction is ever-critical.
Exercise: After reading the article, have students dissect the fact-checking process modeled in the text. Prompt a class discussion on what the process looks like in practice, step-by-step. Did anything about the process surprise them? Then, in pairs, students should fact-check a short news text (either one they’ve selected or one you provide to them). Which sources should they examine to confirm that the text is credible?
by Rafiullah Nikzad | 27 Jul 2023 | Art, Journalism, Russia, Ukraine
One Ukrainian journalist in exile sells art to help colleagues in peril back home as she waits for the war to end. Ukrainian journalist and artist Lyudmila Makei examines a painting of flowers on exhibit at the National Museum of Kosovo in June 2023. (Photo by...
by News Decoder | 25 Jul 2023 | Education, Environment, Journalism, Science, Writing's on the Wall
We’ve created a library of educational resources to decode climate science and face the crisis with journalism, activism and art. CO2 written on a blackboard. (Credit: Getty Images Signature) Teaching climate change is a daunting task for educators, whether for...
by Jeremy Solomons | 12 Jul 2023 | Americas, Economy, Journalism
A young reporter once exposed the lies of a prime minister. That reporting had global repercussions. Then came the backlash. Scene from a beach on a Caribbean island. (Credit ViliamM/Getty Images) This article was produced exclusively for News Decoder’s global news...
by News Decoder | 10 Jul 2023 | Climate champion profile, Climate decoders, Environment, Writing's on the Wall
Over the past year, correspondents and students across the world helped us explore climate change and the ways to slow it down and reverse it. A collage of photos from News Decoder’s Climate Decoders series. Climate change is such a big problem many people feel...
