Find Out Why_ Digital Fluency Lab

The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a US based NGO that focuses on supporting young people become critical thinkers, news and media literate. In this interview, Damaso Reyes, journalist and NLP's ambassador in Europe, talks about the skills that are required today in order for young people and the general public to understand, interpret and successfully act upon information, especially within the context of being participants in Democratic societies.

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In this first episode of Find Out Why's new series "Pursuing The Whole Story"  our researcher Stefan Haas, who specializes in political economy, explains the basics of the story which serves as a case study of how platforms and applications have the potential to affect and even destabilize the operation of traditional institutions such as the stock market.

Find Out Why interviews Imran Ahmed, the founder of the Center of Countering Digital Hate, a London-based advocacy group that counters “hate groups” and individuals from spreading their narratives at major social media outlets.

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Find Out Why reached out to Dr. Thomas Arnold, assistant professor at the philosophical seminary of the University of Heidelberg. His views on logic, reasoning and ethics are uniquely appealing. He has designed a project which is sponsored by the Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship and it explores ways of achieving a form of public philosophy.

This is what he shared in his interview for Find Out Why

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In his book, “Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism", James T. Hamilton Stanford University Professor and Director of the Journalism Program, proposes an economic framework of analysis that measures the return on investment of investigative reporting and ultimately its impact to democracy and society. This is what he discussed in an interview with Find Out Why's Elena Gkiola

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Dr. Anna Berti Suman is the principal investigator of the project SensJus with the mission to “provide newly required research capacity in the EU by redefining citizen sensing as source of evidence acceptable in environmental litigation and as a tool for mediating environmental conflicts”.
Dr. Anna Berti Suman is a postdoctoral fellow at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, seconded there by the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, and author of the book “Sensing the risk: An accessible ‘toolbox’ for interested citizen science communities and policy-makers wishing to integrate citizen-sensed data into risk governance.”

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In an exclusive interview with Find Out Why, Zoë Papaikonomou, an Amsterdam based investigative journalist, author, keynoter, media educator and diversity advocate shares compelling insights into the practices of inclusive journalism.

Zoë answers timely questions: 

-how mainstream media outlets can foster a culture of belonging where everyone's talents are nurtured and celebrated? 

-what tools chief editors can wield to practice inclusion?

- why inclusion strategies at the centre of media workforce, workplace, and marketplace can significantly affect both the content quality and the audience’s expansion?

She outlines the importance of new media education in today’s information world and the challenges of the online culture of anger and hate at specific social media platforms. 

This interview sheds light at the decisions involved prior to the news production and inspires us on deciding what we should look for during our media consumption.

Find the transcript of the interview at our blog posts:
https://findoutwhy.info/blog
https://findoutwhy.info/blog/f/news-production-practices-and-the-need-for-inclusivity

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