The Big Threat

Against the backdrop of the devastating LA fires, with a new President in the White House and as Meta announces its retreat from fact checking, Bryce visits San Francisco where public broadcaster KQED is mounting a rearguard action to fight fake news, and meets with Stanford University’s Professor Sam Wineburg - an academic sounding the alarm on a looming global disinformation crisis.

Links:

Sam Wineburg’s book, Verified

Professor Sam Wineburg: Stanford

KQED Youth Media Challenge

Corporation for Public Broadcasting - US

Articles:

Sam Wineburg’s USA Today op-ed

KQED faces budget cuts: $8m 

Cuts threaten public broadcasting in the US

Australian Government: Social media ban for under 16s

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On the eve of a Presidential inauguration, Bryce travels to Washington and New York to meet media literacy advocates and fact-checking organisations nervously assessing their futures. As the FT Correspondent Andrew Jack provides a sobering take on the new US administration and its implications for democracy, a visit to a Manhattan elementary school provides a glimmer of hope. 

Links:

FT for Schools

Take 2 Media Initiative

News Literacy Project

News Literacy in America Report

Student Reporting Labs

NAMLE: National Association for Media Literacy Education

Pulitzer Centre: Journalist Classroom Visits

Articles:

Daron Acemoglu - Standard Oil op-ed in the Financial Times

Trump-era funding cut delivers blow to local journalism as public broadcasting group forced to close - ABC

This is what Russia propaganda looks like in 2024 - NPR

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Still in New York, Bryce meets with the News Literacy Project’s Darragh Worland, and compares media literacy education notes with the Poynter Institute’s Brittani Kollar. And against a backdrop of government cuts to public broadcasting and media companies buckling to political pressure, he sits down with Michelle Lipkin who’s built a nationwide community of digital literacy educators, inspired by her own painful experience as a victim of one of the worst terrorist attacks the world has ever seen.

Links:

⁠News Literacy Project⁠

⁠News Literacy in America Report⁠

⁠Poynter Institute - Media Wise⁠

⁠National Association of Media Literacy Educators (NAMLE)⁠

⁠Reuters Institute - Digital News Report⁠

⁠Alan Miller: on founding the News Literacy Project⁠

Articles:

⁠Michelle Lipkin and Pan Am 103⁠ - PBS

⁠Paramount, SkyDance deal - CBS⁠

⁠Paramount, CBS, Stephen Colbert + the SkyDance deal - The Guardian⁠

⁠SkyDance pledges to end DEI at CBS and ‘root out bias’ - CNN⁠

⁠Louisiana mandates Ten Commandments in every classroom - BBC

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Bryce visits Estonia and Finland where he discovers a shared border with Russia has made universal media literacy not just a nice to have, but existential. Interviewing the Estonian education minister, Kristina Kallas and Finnish government officials - he learns that digital literacy is now a priority at all levels of government - including the Ministries of Defence.

Links:

EU DisinfoLab’s Doppelganger

EU Digital Services Act

Estonia Women’s Voluntary Defence Organisation

Estonian Defence League

US Embassy - Estonia - Small Grants Program

Faktisk website

Faktisk media literacy arm, Tenk

NORDIS: The Nordic Hub for Digital and Information Disorder

Finland’s National Audio Visual Institute

Articles:

EU Prepares Major Penalties against Elon Musk’s X - New York Times

Fakitsk: Norway’s media literacy program - BBC

Finnish newspaper hides news reports in online game - The Guardian

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In Paris, Bryce discovers how the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror attacks focused the minds of French people to the importance of media literacy - such that lessons are now mandated in all French schools. He visits a high school classroom where teens are being taught to tell online fact from fiction, meets the Agence France Presse team of fact-checkers and sits down with a former journalist turned digital literacy advocate whose organisation, Lie Detectors, is tackling misinformation one lie at a time.

Links:

AFP Fact Check

Entre Les Lignes

CLEMI

Mapping the media literacy landscape in France - European Digital Media Observatory

Media & Learning in France

Lie Detectors

Articles:

In France school lessons ask which Twitter post should you trust? - New York Times 
Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers - BBC

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On the last leg of his international fact-finding mission, Bryce travels to London - where an academic’s calls for media literacy to be taught at school might finally be being answered. He also visits The Guardian newspaper to learn how they’re fighting fake news - and meets with a Cambridge professor who’s an expert on the psychology of misinformation and worries COVID may have changed everything.

Links:

Professor David Buckingham

Professor Jon Roozenbeek

House of Lords Report into Media Literacy

New Yorker cartoon

Guardian Foundation’s NewsWise program

Ofcom’s Media Use in Britain Report

Articles:

Zinoviev letter was dirty trick by MI6 - The Guardian

Professor Jon Roozenbeek on the Psychology of Misinformation

Professor David Buckingham on the Media Literacy Report

UK Parliament launches inquiry into media literacy

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Having spent six weeks travelling to the US, UK, Finland, France and Estonia meeting international experts fighting the scourge of mis- and disinformation, Bryce returns to Australia to take stock of the situation at home. He sits down with the Governor-General, Sam Mostyn AC, former Labor leader Bill Shorten, the University of Canberra’s Professor Sora Park and McKinnon’s Exec Director of Democracy, Jay Weatherill to discover how their shared passion for defending Australia’s civic institutions means a belief in the urgent need for media literacy education.

Links:

Digital News Report - University of Canberra

Squiz Kids Q+A with Governor General Sam Mostyn

McKinnon

Museum of Australian Democracy

eSafety Commission

AMLA - Australian Media Literacy Alliance

ACARA - National Curriculum Authority - recommends Newshounds

Articles:

Social Media Minimum Age Bill

eSafety Commission Guide 

Social media ban review - 9 News

Trial of tech that could be used to keep Australian under-16s off social media finds some errors ‘inevitable’ - The Guardian

Enforcing Australia's social media ban on kids is possible but contains risks, report says - BBC

Social media age verification possible but laden with risks, landmark study warns - ABC

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