Stony Brook adds $200K support from Ford to start "news literacy education" center

01-19-2008 -- UPDATE: Watch a 22-minute video interview with Jim Klurfeld and Howard Schneider:

http://newshare.typepad.com/mgpaudio/2008/01/video-the-deman.html

The Ford Foundation has provided $200,000 to see the formation of the nation's first "news literacy center" -- at Stony Brook University on Long Island, and an editorial-page editor is leaving his daily-newspaper job to head it. Newsday's Jim Klurfeld will head the center, "a resource center to develop curriculum for high-school instruction and secondary-teacher training programs, and design conferences, seminars, lectures and workshops that will bring together scholars and journalists to explore issues related to the reliability of news from print, broadcast and the web," according to a release from the university. Last year, Stony Brook received $1.7 million from the Knight Foundation to experiment with comprehensive teaching of media literacy at the college level.
RELEASE:
http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/S...

EARLIER POST: http://www.acmecoalition.org/bill_densmore/28092007/experiment_underway_...