Private Press Panel - Fighting Fake News: Teachers, Technology & Truth
Media giants, Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, join teachers to answer reporters' questions about fake news
Topic: Is there a crisis of misinformation in education? How can students learn how to tell good reporting from bad? Myth from fact? Former Wall Street Journal publisher, Gordon Crovitz, and CourtTV founder, Steven Brill, join teachers and curriculum experts to answer questions about the role our schools play in media literacy. Panelists, Crovitz and Brill, are co-founders of NewsGuard which ranks source credibility of online news, frequently issuing reports on major issues such as the Black Lives Matter movement.
Date: Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EDT Register here
Panelists
- Steven Brill, co-founder of NewsGuard and founder of The American Lawyer, CourtTV and the Yale Journalism Initiative, author of the best-selling book Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind Ameria’s Fifty-Year Fall – and Those Fighting to Reverse It
- Gordon Crovitz, co-founder of NewsGuard, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and columnist, Rhodes Scholar, and former EVP of Dow Jones
- Patti West-Smith, former supervisor of instruction and current director of teaching and learning innovation for Turnitin
- Chris Salvagio, AP Language and Comp teacher at Cienega High School in Vail, AZ
- Alexis Rhyner, AP Literature and AP Capstone teacher at Cienega High School in Vail, AZ
For Reporters - How this Works:
- Reporters, send questions ahead of time or during the panel. We ask the panelists and send to you -- and you only -- a time-stamped video transcript (here's a sample) with your specific responses. Unscripted. Unedited. Just for you.
- Reporters may attend but need not be present (as long as your questions have been sent ahead of time). We're trying to save you time and give you great access.
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- The first 20 minutes are open for general questions and open to an audience. When we get into the private questions, the audience is dismissed so that no one else has access to your questions.
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