Welcome to our Web site chronicling the first national conference on News Literacy. If you didn’t participate in the conference, this is an opportunity to “attend” the conference yourself. We’ve arranged several layers of navigation so you can spend just a few minutes or a few hours exploring the conference. You will learn what News Literacy is. You will meet the conference attendees, including university presidents and top news media leaders. You can watch a presentation on how a course in News Literacy already is being taught to thousands of undergraduates at Stony Brook University. You can experience the conference “breakout” sessions for yourself and hear about a “Big Idea.”
But this also is an evolving site about what comes next. Most importantly, learn how your institution—college, university, high school, foundation or news organization—can teach or support News Literacy in the future. And feel free to send this link to others who might be interested.


At the concluding session of the conference, 