Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism

Fighting news illiteracy

1 August 2019
A man browses through the Twitter account of Alt News, a fact-checking website in April 2019. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Everybody with a cell phone is a publisher these days. Maybe it's time we learn to be reporters.

The downside of the internet is that it has given propagandists and peddlers of disinformation easy access to a worldwide audience. No country is immune from the problem.

On this edition of Global Journalist hosted by Kathy Kiely, a look at efforts to fight disinformation, counter Russian propaganda and learn how some organizations are working to increase news literacy around the world. 

Joining the program:

Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism.
cameramagnifiercross linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram