Prof. Jen Hoyer, Assistant Professor and Eresources/Technical Services Librarian recently published a book chapter entitled “The News Is History: Building News Literacy Skills with Historic Primary Sources,” in News Literacy Across the Undergraduate Curriculum, Amy Damico and Melissa Yang, eds. Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024, https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v9.40962. + CUNY Academic Works.
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This book chapter explores how we can teach skills for news literacy by looking at historic primary sources. Instead of trying to constantly adapt lesson plans to new media forms, I suggest that we use historical news sources as a sandbox for practicing news literacy skills, and then allow students to apply those skills in the spaces where they interact with news today. This chapter examines some of the needs faced by news literacy in the twenty-first century alongside the possibilities offered by teaching with primary source material and includes activities to teach transferable skills for news literacy.
