Payne’s school, Baldwin High School in Baldwin, New York, is one of a rising tide of schools across the country trying to incorporate media literacy education into their curriculum. Across the ...

Media literacy, a concept first defined in the 1990s, has also experienced a resurgence of interest. Media literacy is an awkward term, but it is meant to capture the knowledge and skills we need ...

What’s different about me is how I think about all that content. I learned news and media literacy skills in high school: how to identify media bias, think critically about the information I see ...