Seventh annual National News Literacy Week to be celebrated next week: Feb. 2-6

The seventh annual National News Literacy Week, presented by the News Literacy Project, The E.W. Scripps Company, USA TODAY and USA TODAY Network, provides educators with the tools and resources they need to help students navigate today’s information landscape more skillfully.

News literacy teaches students how to think about news and information, not what to think.

It helps students recognize the characteristics of credible information and how to use them to make personal decisions about what to trust. News literacy helps students to:

• Understand why our nation’s founders protected press freedoms in the Constitution.
• Recognize important attributes of credible journalism in practice, such as a commitment to accuracy, fairness, independence and accountability.
• Reflect on their own biases as well as those they perceive in news and other information.
• Use these skills and insights to decide which sources of information to seek out and base important civic decisions on.

Learn more and make plans to participate Feb. 2-6.