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Book SynopsisTRUSTING THE NEWS in a Digital Age How to use critical thinking to discern real news from fake newsTrusting the News in a Digital Age provides an ethical framework and the much-needed tools for assessing information produced in our digital age. With the tsunami of information on social media and other venues, many have come to distrust all forms of communication, including the news. This practical text offers guidance on how to use critical thinking, appropriate skepticism, and journalistic curiosity to handle this flow of undifferentiated information. Designed to encourage critical thinking, each chapter introduces specific content, followed at the end of each section with an ethical dilemma. The ideas presented are based on the author's experiences as a teacher and public editor/ombudsman at NPR News. Trusting the News in a Digital Age prepares readers to deal with changes to news and information in the digital environment. It brings to light the fact that journalism is about treating the public as citizens first, and consumers of information second. This important text:Reveals how to use critical thinking to handle the never-ending flow of informationContains ethical dilemmas to help sharpen critical thinking skillsExplains how to verify sources and spot fraudsLooks at the economic and technological conditions that facilitated changes in communicationWritten for students of journalism and media studies, Trusting the News in the Digital Age offers guidance on how to hone critical thinking skills needed to discern fact from fiction.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to News Literacy
Chapter 2: Changing Definitions of News
Chapter 3: Why News Ethics? Why Now?
Chapter 4: Verification = Trust
Chapter 5: The Effect of Digital on Media Forms
Chapter 6: When the Audience is Biased
Chapter 7: When the News is Biased
Chapter 8: The Economics of Journalism in a Digital Age
Chapter 9: Framing and Deconstructing the News
Chapter 10 – News Sources: Credible and Less Credible
Chapter 11: Trusting Journalism in a Time of “Fake News”
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