Educational Resources

To learn more about news literacy and principles of journalism, check this extensive listing of educational resources, compiled with our advisors and partners. If you think we should add an educational resource to this list, .

Organizations, Websites and Journals

1. Action Coalition for Media Education
2. American Journalism Review
3. American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)
   (see also: High School Journalism.org)
4. The Association for Media Literacy  (Canada)
5. Center for News Literacy  (SUNY - Stony Brook)
6. CNN Student News
7. Columbia Journalism Review
8. The Committee of Concerned Journalists
9. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
10. FactCheck.org   (and sister site FactCheckEd.org)
11. FreePress
12. Girls, Women and Media Project
13. Grade the News
14. High Five, the Integrated Language Arts and Journalism Curriculum
    (Newspaper Association of America Foundation)
15. High School Broadcast Journalism Project
    (from Radio-Television News Directors Association - RTNDA)
16. High School Journalism.org
    (from American Society of Newspaper Editors - ASNE)
17. Investigative Reporters and Editors
18. Journal of Media Literacy  (National Telemedia Council)
19. Journal of Media Literacy Education  (NAMLE)
20. Know the News  (Link TV)
21. Mediactive
22. Media Awareness Network  (Canada)
23. Media Literacy Clearinghouse
24. Media Standards Trust  (UK)
25. Mediawatch
26. National Association for Media Literacy Education
    (See Also: Core Principles, NAMLE Marketplace)
27. National Telemedia Council
28. Newseum
29. News Literacy Conference
30. News Literacy Project
31. NewsTrust.net
32. News University  (Poynter Institute)
33. Nieman Labs
34. Poynter Institute for Journalism Education
35. Project for Excellence in Journalism
36. Project Look Sharp  (Ithaca College)
37. Robert Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
38. Washington News Council
39. YouTube Reporters' Center

Journalism Codes of Ethics

1. American Society of Newspaper Editors – Code of Ethics
2. Associated Press Managing Editors – Code of Ethics
3. Center for Citizen Media – Principles of Citizen Journalism 
4. New York Times – Code of Ethics  (PDF)
5. Radio-Television News Directors Association – Code of Ethics
6. Society of Professional Journalists – Code of Ethics

Lesson Plans

1. Media Analysis Guides – McDougal Littell Literature (grade 12)
2. Messages and Meanings: A Guide to Understanding Media – Frank Baker's site
3. Points of View in the News – National Geographic XPeditions (grades 6-8)
4. Reading Between the Lines – National Geographic XPeditions (grades 9-12)
5. Say What? – Thinkport (grades 6-8)
6. Teaching the News – Teachworld.com and the Channel One Network

Books and Articles

Primary and Middle School

1. Dominic Ali (2005) Media Madness: An Insiders Guide to Media. Toronto: Kids Can Press, Ltd.
2. Stergios Botzakis (2008) What's Your Source?: Questioning the News. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press.
3. Stergios Botzakis (2007) Pretty in Print: Questioning Newspapers and Magazines. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press.
4. Peyton Paxson (2004) Media Literacy: Thinking Critically About Visual Culture. Portland, ME: Walch Education.
5. Peyton Paxson (2006) Media literacy: Thinking Critically about Newspapers and Magazines. Portland, ME: Walch Education.
6. Heather E. Schwartz (2008) YourSpace: Questioning New Media. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press.
7. Guofang Wan (2007) Virtually True: Questioning Online Media. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press.

High School

1. Farai Chideya (1995) Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African-Americans. New York: Penguin Books.
2. Robert Cirino (1971) Don't Blame the People: How the News Media Use Bias, Distortion and Censorship to Manipulate Public Opinion. Los Angeles: Diversity Press.
3. Barry Duncan, Janine D’Ippolito, Cam Macpherson and Carolyn Wilson (1996) Mass Media and Popular Culture, 2nd edition. Toronto: Thomas Nelson.
4. Steve Goodman (2003) Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production, and Social Change. New York: Teacher’s College Press.
5. Renee Hobbs (2007) Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English. New York: Teachers College Press.

College and University

1. Ben H. Bagdikian (2004) The New Media Monopoly. Boston: Beacon.
2. W. Lance Bennett (2001) News: The Politics of Illusion, 4th Edition. New York: Longman.
3. Arthur Asa Berger (2008) Seeing is Believing. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences.
4. David Buckingham (2003) Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
5. Michael Bugeja (2005) Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Michael Bugeja (2008) Living Ethics Across Media Platforms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
7. D. A. Dondis (2000) A Primer of Visual Literacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
8. Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser (2002) The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
9. Edward J. Epstein (1973) News from Nowhere: Television and the News. New York: Random House.
10. James Ettema (1987) "Journalism in the 'Post-factual Age.'" Critical Studies in Communication, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 82-86.
11. Tom Fenton (2005) Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All. New York: HarperCollins.
12. Herbert J. Gans (1979) Deciding What's News. New York: Random House.
13. Herbert J. Gans (2003) Democracy and the News. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
14. Bernard Goldberg (2002) Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing.
15. Bernard Goldberg (2003) Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite. New York: Warner Books.
16. James T. Hamilton (2004) All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
17. Don Hazen and Julie Winokur, editors (1997) We the Media: A Citizen’s Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy. New York: The New Press.
18. Gregg Hoffmann (1993) Media Maps and Myths. Whitefish Bay, WI: M&T Communications.
19. Robert M. Hutchins and the Commission on Freedom of the Press (1947) A Free and Responsible Press. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
20. Harold A. Innis (1951) The Bias of Communication. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
21. Reed Irvine, Joseph C. Goulden and Cliff Kincaid (1993) The News Manipulators. Smithtown, NY: Book Distributors.
22. Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2007) Unspun. New York: Random House.
23. Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel (2001) The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect. New York: Crown.
24. Robert Kubey, editor (1997) Media Literacy in the Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
25. Walter Lippmann (1922) Public Opinion. New York: Free Press.
26. Eleanor MacLean (1981) Between the Lines: How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life. Montreal: Black Rose Books.
27. Robert W. McChesney (2004) The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century. New York: Monthly Review Press.
28. Robert W. McChesney (1999) Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
29. Marcy McGinnis and Howard Schneider (2009) Watching TV News: How to Be a Smarter Viewer  (Free online course at Poynter Institute's News University)
30. Denis McQuail (2003) Media Accountability and Freedom of Publication. London: Oxford Press.
31. John H. McManus (1994) Market-driven Journalism: Let the Citizen Beware? Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
32. John H. McManus (2009) Sunnyvale, CA: The Unvarnished Press. Detecting Bull: How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web 
    (An e-book on DVD is available at detectingbull.com)
33. Paul Messaris (1998) "Visual Aspects of Media Literacy." Journal of Communication, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 70-80.
34. Joshua Meyrowitz (1998) "Multiple Media Literacies." Journal of Communication, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 96-108.
35. W. Russell Neuman, Marion R. Just and Ann N. Crigler (1992) Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
36. Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson (2001) Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion. New York: Henry Holt.
37. Vincent Price and David Tewksbury (1997) "News Values and Public Opinion: A Theoretical Account of Media Priming and Framing," Progress in Communication Sciences, eds. George Barnett and Franklin J. Boster. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, pp. 173-212.
38. David Pritchard, editor (2000) Holding the Media Accountable: Citizens, Ethics and the Law. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
39. Howard Rheingold (2009) Crap Detection 101. San Francisco Chronicle.
40. Tom Rosenstiel, Marion Just, Todd Belt, Atiba Pertilla, Walter Dean, and Dante Chinni (2007) We Interrupt This Newscast: How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings, Too. New York: Cambridge University Press.
41. Art Silverblatt (2001) Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages. Westport, CT: Praeger.
42. Jörgen Westerståhl, (1983) "Objective News Reporting: General Premises." Communication Research, vol. 10, pp. 403-424.
43. James Winter (1997) Democracy’s Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News. Montreal: Black Rose Press.
44. Herbert Zettl (1998) "Contextual Media Aesthetics as the Basis for Media Literacy." Journal of Communication, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 81-95.

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NewsTrust Team Credits

This list was compiled by John McManus, with additional contributions from Frank Baker, Fabrice Florin and Kristin Gorski.

About John McManus

John McManus, Ph.D., a former journalist and communication professor and the founder of Grade the News, writes about and analyzes news media. His first book about how market forces shape news won the research prize from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1994. His research has been published in Columbia Journalism Review, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Communication Research, Communication Theory, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism, Mass Comm Review, Nieman Reports, and Quill.

John's new publication, Detecting Bull: How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web, [Sunnyvale, CA: The Unvarnished Press, 2009] is now available. (An e-book on DVD, you can get it at www.detectingbull.com.)