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Active Voicers, Assemble! Chicago workshop kicks off inaugural fellowship year

August 21, 2016October 5, 2020 Active Voice

"Find your voice. Own your voice. Don't be afraid" Five college journalists drawn from campuses from coast-to-coast got a two-day crash course in movement-building from experts in the legal, nonprofit and public-relations fields. The Aug. 18-19 workshop marked the kickoff of the inaugural round of Active Voice fellowships, awarded to college students with inventive ideas… Continue reading Active Voicers, Assemble! Chicago workshop kicks off inaugural fellowship year

Two new reports on civic engagement in schools identify a central role for scholastic journalism skills

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October 13, 2013September 5, 2018 Frank LoMonte

Youth will need digital media literacy skills to critically engage with all the information (and misinformation) they can now find online, to seek out a range of perspectives, and to be thoughtful about the content they circulate and create.

That's among the big-picture takeaways from a groundbreaking new study, "All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement," just released by Tufts University as the product of the nation's leading scholars in civic education.The Oct.