Resources that help students
understand professional codes of ethics, including journalists'

NewseumED:

• "The Speed of News: The Six Big Questions" lesson E

• "Getting to the Source" lesson

• "Is it Fair?" lesson

• "Compare Coverage of Brown v. Board Ruling" lesson

Common Sense Education:

• "Reading News Online" lesson E

• "This Just In!" lesson

• "Responding to Breaking News" Social Media TestDrive lesson

• "News in Social Media" Social Media TestDrive activity

News Literacy Project:

• "Practicing Quality Journalism" self-paced Checkology lesson 

• "Understanding Bias" self-paced Checkology lesson

• "Front-page editorial promotion..." slide deck

• "News or opinion?" slide deck

• "Get smart about COVID-19" quiz could be used to check for understanding

• "Is it legit? Vetting news sources for credibility" qioz has examples that do and don't follow the rules of responsible journalism

CIVIX Explains:

• "Journalism standards" video E

• "Why journalism?" video E

Civic Online Reasoning:

• "Lateral Reading with News Stories" lesson

• "News vs. Opinions" lesson

• "News on Twitter" assessment

BBC My World Media Literacy:

• "What's the angle?" lesson

• "How do journalists earn trust?" lesson

• "Why do some news stories evolve?" lesson

Facing History:

• "Verifying Breaking News" lesson

• "How Journalists Minimize Bias" lesson

Other resources:

• Media Smarts' "Crime in the news" lesson

• New York Times' "Distinguishing between fact and opinion" lesson

• Pew Research's "How well can you tell factual from opinion statements?" quiz

• Ted Ed's "How to choose your news" video

• Above the Noise's "False equivalence: why it's so dangerous" video

• Take on Fake's "Inside 'The Chaos Machine'" video

• It's Been a Minute's "Reckoning with Race in Journalism" podcast

• Washington Post's "Wall Street Journal staffers asked the editorial board for more accuracy. The board bemoaned ‘cancel culture.’ article

• Alexandra Petri's "HomestyleFamilyRecipes.com will not cave to cancel culture" satirical article (a fun way to examine the same story about the WSJ)

Think critically about science reporting

• MediaSmarts' "Reality Check: Getting the Goods on Science & Health" lesson 

• News Literacy Project's "Evaluating Science-Based Claims" self-paced Checkology lesson 

• Above the Noise's "Top 4 tips to spot bad science reporting" video 

• The Atlantic's "The Point When Science Becomes Publicity" article

• The Guardian's "Bad Science" series of articles