News Literacy Project
| Abbreviation | NLP |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2008 |
| Founder | Alan C. Miller |
| Founded at | Washington, D.C., United States |
| Type | Nonprofit |
| Legal status | Active |
| Purpose | To provide resources for educators, students, and the general public to help them learn to identify credible information, recognize misinformation and disinformation, and determine what they can trust, share, and act on. |
| Products | Checkology virtual classroom, NewsLitCamp, Informable mobile app, The Sift, Get Smart About News, RumorGuard, Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024, Is That a Fact? podcast |
| Services | News literacy education, resources, and training. |
| Fields | Education, media literacy, information literacy |
Official language | English |
CEO | Charles Salter |
Board Chair | Karen Wickre |
Vice Chair | Walt Mossberg |
| Karen Wickre (Chair), Walt Mossberg (Vice Chair), Tucker Eskew, Eva Haller, Abby Phillip, Liz Ramos | |
Key people | Alan C. Miller (Founder) |
| Award(s) | David M. Rubenstein Prize (2023), Webby People's Voice Award (2024), HundrED Spotlight on Digital Wellbeing award (2019) |
| Website | newslit |
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is an American nonpartisan national education nonprofit, based in Washington, D.C., that provides resources for educators, students, and the general public to help them learn to identify credible information, recognize misinformation and disinformation, and determine what they can trust, share, and act on. It was founded in 2008 by Alan C. Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau.
As an academic discipline, news literacy is widely considered a subset of media literacy and information literacy. The American Society of News Editors' Youth Journalism Initiative defines news literacy as "the acquisition of 21st-century, critical-thinking skills for analyzing and judging the reliability of news and information, differentiating among facts, opinions and assertions in the media we consume, create and distribute. It can be taught most effectively in cross-curricular, inquiry-based formats at all grade levels. It is a necessary component for literacy in contemporary society.”