📺 Should all broadcasters who make use of public airwaves be forced to give all political candidates in an election equal time on air? Why or why not?
👆🏾 Just 1 prompt educators can use for having a discussion about the "equal time" rule.
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Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the music producer who turned Selena y Los Dinos, his small family band, into a Grammy Award-winning act, died on Saturday at age 86. He managed his daughter Selena’s career as she ascended to the peak of the Tejano music world, but he was a polarizing figure to some fans.
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📰 This week's edition of The Sift covers 2 big #journalism stories with ideas for discussing them with students:
- A majority of news outlets rejected the new #Pentagon press policy
- #Indiana University accused of censoring the student newspaper
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In this week's edition of The Sift newsletter:
✨ OpenAI's new social app Sora: Context + discussion questions for the classroom
✨ The impact of AI-generated videos of doctors, journalists + other professionals
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In this week's issue of The Sift:
✨ How confusion spread online after Charlie Kirk's death
✨ Daily Do Now slides with First Amendment Q's + more
✨ The decline of global press freedoms
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💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores:
- AI & teens' mental health
- News avoidance & more
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After a summer hiatus, The Sift newsletter is back!
Each weekly issue has:
• Updates on news literacy topics
• Ready-to-go teaching slides.
• Classroom-ready discussion prompts
• Teachable examples of viral misinfo
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@newslit.org's newsletter for families. So excited for it to come out next week!
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NPR and PBS are the two most recognizable recipients of money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But the recent Republican-backed cuts to public media will hit outlets in poorer and more rural areas of the country the hardest.
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One of my favorite Sift issues is the yearend roundup we do!
Always fun to see what news stories and resources educators reading this newsletter enjoy the most. Most clicked story this year was about how memes are used to spread misinfo + tips for countering them.
More here:
Soooos good! If only they could've included "Let's run away together" too! Such a fabulous musical.
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
⚠️ The past year was the first time the global state of #PressFreedom was categorized as a “difficult situation” by @rsf.org in its annual index of 180 countries.
🔎 Read our special issue of The Sift that lays out 3 ways to teach about this important topic: go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
#Educators: Don't miss today's special issue of The Sift dedicated to press freedom featuring:
- A breakdown of the just-released @rsf.org index
- Teaching slides with 5- to 10-minute exercises to do
- Dig Deeper think sheets, a reading list ➕ more!
🔗 go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
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This is my local paper. I worked here for a few years & am a longtime subscriber. Reading the printed Sunday paper is part of my family’s weekend routine. Having a robust, locally owned paper was a source of pride for our community.
I hope the paper doesn’t get gutted 😥
This #AAPIMonth, learn about Asian American & Pacific Islander journalists from U.S. history with our @flipboard.com collection: bit.ly/AAPIJournali...
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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