Media Literacy & Journalism Workshop
This workshop aims to increase participants’ awareness of how journalism and the media work and how they process and relay information. The core of the workshop is a presentation of various examples of media reports illustrating the full spectrum of journalism: from fair, balanced and well researched to quite the opposite.
Objectives
- Understand what good journalism should look like, and what the real-life limitations are
- Identify bias and framing in text, photos and graphs
- Learn to ask the right questions and how to double check information and sources
Democracy Skills Addressed
- Media literacy & tools
- Awareness about the realities of journalism & the media
- Critical thinking & observation
- Fact-checking
- Building self-confidence with regard to media consumption
Format
Timeframe: 2 – 4 hours (ideally 4 hours or more to go through all of the content)
Age Group
16+
