Press Rights: Tools of Truth

In the era of the fight against fake news, we believe journalists must be aware of the social climate surrounding the work they do. The attacks and delegitimization of the news media on a national scale shouldn’t make us question the work we do.

We must be able to educate ourselves and our audiences about the role and mission of a 21st century journalist.

We’ve created this set of tools for educators to promote discussion about truth and credibility in the media we access as makers, sharers, consumers and evaluators.

Our lessons are in four different areas to help meet this goal:

• Sloppy reporting
• Censorship
• Satire
• Deceptive reporting
• Link to all lessons in one place

Contributors
Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE
John Bowen, MJE
Maggie Cogar, CJE
Michael Johnson
Lori Keekley, MJE
Jeff Kocur, CJE
Kristin Taylor, CJE