In this week's issue of The Sift: ✨ How confusion spread online after Charlie Kirk's death ✨ Daily Do Now slides with First Amendment Q's + more ✨ The decline of global press freedoms 👉🏾 Read & share with a teacher friend: go.newslit.org/Sift15Sept2025 #EduSky #EdTech

Share The Sift with a #teacher or three in your life! Kudos to the awesome team of @hannahcov.bsky.social @pamelabrunskill.bsky.social @peteradams.bsky.social @susanmini.bsky.social @lourdesvenard.bsky.social & others on a tremendous first issue of the school year.

🚨 Educators: Don't walk but run to that subscribe button because ... The Sift is back! 💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores: - AI & teens' mental health - News avoidance & more ⤵️ Read & subscribe #NewsLiteracy

After a summer hiatus, The Sift newsletter is back! Each weekly issue has: • Updates on news literacy topics • Ready-to-go teaching slides. • Classroom-ready discussion prompts • Teachable examples of viral misinfo Check out the first issue of the school year: newslit.org/educators/si...

Spent the day working on the first issue of Scroll Smarter, @newslit.org's newsletter for families. So excited for it to come out next week! Here's info + subscription form (it's FREE 😀): newslit.org/scroll-smart...

🔥 Got any burning #NewsLiteracy questions? Send 'em our way & they may be answered by our team of educators & journalists in Scroll Smarter, our NEW family newsletter. ➕ If your question is picked, you’ll win some NLP swag! 🔗 Submit yours: go.newslit.org/QuestionsNLP

NPR and PBS are the two most recognizable recipients of money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But the recent Republican-backed cuts to public media will hit outlets in poorer and more rural areas of the country the hardest.

NLP has an awesome new newsletter in the works! Scroll Smarter will provide tips and tools for families as they navigate the news, social media & AI. It only comes out once a month, so it won't clog up your inbox. Please share widely with all the parents and caregivers in your life!

One of my favorite Sift issues is the yearend roundup we do! Always fun to see what news stories and resources educators reading this newsletter enjoy the most. Most clicked story this year was about how memes are used to spread misinfo + tips for countering them. More here:

Soooos good! If only they could've included "Let's run away together" too! Such a fabulous musical.

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

⚠️ The past year was the first time the global state of #PressFreedom was categorized as a “difficult situation” by @rsf.org in its annual index of 180 countries. 🔎 Read our special issue of The Sift that lays out 3 ways to teach about this important topic: go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025

#Educators: Don't miss today's special issue of The Sift dedicated to press freedom featuring: - A breakdown of the just-released @rsf.org index - Teaching slides with 5- to 10-minute exercises to do - Dig Deeper think sheets, a reading list ➕ more! 🔗 go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025 #PressFreedomDay

This is horrible. Please don’t gut my local paper 😢 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Excited to be at the Newsletter Conference today!

Really sad to hear this. This is my local paper. I worked here for a few years & am a longtime subscriber. Reading the printed Sunday paper is part of my family’s weekend routine. Having a robust, locally owned paper was a source of pride for our community. I hope the paper doesn’t get gutted 😥

This #AAPIMonth, learn about Asian American & Pacific Islander journalists from U.S. history with our @flipboard.com collection: bit.ly/AAPIJournali...

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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California is awesome. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

🔷 TikTok debuts fact-checking 'Footnotes' 🔷 What if algorithms didn't decide what's popular? 🔷 How are mass layoffs threatening Freedom of Information Act requests? 🔗 Read The Sift for these stories, discussion prompts & much more: go.newslit.org/Sift21April2... #EdTech #TLSky

🙏🏽 thank goodness. RIP Selena 💜🤍

🎞 New video: www.tiktok.com/@newslitproj... Remember that the popularity of posts ≠ their legitimacy. Practice basic news literacy skills to avoid being duped. #NewsLiteracy #ArtificialIntelligence

📚 Check out our new resource: "AI or not?" Can you tell if an image is AI-generated or real?🤖🤔 In this mini activity, students will explore AI-generated visuals, learn key detection tips & reflect on AI’s impact on misinformation. bit.ly/AIorNotActiv... #NewsLiteracy #AI

📢 Educators: Don't miss today's special edition of The Sift, which features a 6-question quiz on fact-checking skills! 🔗 Check it out, test your students & yourself: bit.ly/Sift3March2025 #EduSky #EdTech

Thinking of my former Journal Star colleague Dave who was kind to all even in tough situations. May he rest in peace.

Can you name the 5 protections under the #FirstAmendment? 💡 Take our short quiz, which also asks questions about when the freedoms do or don't apply: bit.ly/1AQuiz

Charles M. “Sparky” Schulz, creator of Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang, passed away 25 years ago today—just hours before his final Peanuts Sunday comic strip ran in newspapers around the world.⁠ 💛 In memory of Charles Monroe Schulz⁠ November 26, 1922–February 12, 2000⁠

Great to hear my husband @benjaminlclark.com on NPR Morning Edition today!🎉 Give it a listen: www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...

This is true in my experience.

Oh nooo, I hope this doesn't happen! I always appreciated that the PD is locally owned, especially considering the fate of one too many newsrooms when out-of-state companies/hedge funds take over. sfstandard.com/2025/02/06/s...

BEYONCÉ WINS THE BEST COUNTRY ALBUM #GRAMMY FOR COWBOY CARTER YEEHAWWWWW

Beyoncé wins the Grammy for best country album for “Cowboy Carter,” becoming the first Black artist to win the award. “Wow, I was really not expecting this,” Beyoncé said, thanking God, country artists and her family. wapo.st/42Fp6LB

👀 Educators: Don't miss The Sift's first 2025 issue today, which focuses on: - The editorial cartoonist who quit at The Washington Post - Meta ending its fact-checking program - Wildfire falsehoods about L.A. ➕ much more! 🔗 Read & subscribe: bit.ly/Sift13Jan2025 #EduSky #EduLib

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Bought a Sunday print edition of the @houstonchronicle.com while in Houston for a layover. Can’t resist a good Sunday paper when I see one! This was $5 and it’s a nice big bundle. My kiddo was thrilled there’s a comics section! 🗞️ #supportlocalnews

Appreciate this @pressdemo.bsky.social update. There's been lots of chitchat among Santa Rosa friends about the impending school closures, and lots of confusion about how the decision will be made. Best place to stay in the loop (aside from attending these meetings yourself) is here:

Educators: In this week's newsletter, our #RumorGuard slidedeck breaks down how to debunk this viral falsehood ⤵️ with keyword searches, a short video tutorial & more! 💡 Perfect for using with students: bit.ly/RGslidedeck #AcademicSky

It's that time of year again for journalists to feel crippling self-doubt* (and ok yes, inspiration) by clicking through roundups of the best story topics unearthed this year www.bloomberg.com/features/202... *jk that's year-round.

Felt this

#GivingTuesday: Will you donate to @newslitproject.bsky.social? Proud to work for this nonpartisan education nonprofit. Its mission is to ensure all students are skilled in news literacy & can evaluate the credibility of news and other information before they graduate high school. newslit.org/donate

Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US

A great starter pack if you want to learn about news literacy:

The new Cruel Intentions series was fantastic. Already binged it all with my sister! We loved the way the series took elements from the film (like the car, the necklace, the bet) and made its own story out of it. Cece and Lucien were my fav characters. Caroline is so, so cruel! 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@noupside.bsky.social hits the nail on the head in her newsletter on the recent Pew study about news influencers: Many of these content creators depend on the *original reporting* produced by traditional newsrooms.

Yes!

Don't let misinformation dominate the dinner table this holiday season. Here are a few tips for having productive conversations #Thanksgiving #Misinformation #NewsLiteracy

New from me: Two influencers make very similar content promoting Amazon products. They dress the same. They buy the same stuff. They even have a similar tattoo. Now one is suing the other, claiming her rival won't stop copying her. But who influenced whom? www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

My mini review of Wicked: Cynthia Erivo’s eyes cinched that movie. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is a fun thread. It’s tricky, though!