{"id":209564,"date":"2023-03-17T14:53:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=209564"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:53:33","slug":"montclair-mayor-joins-msu-panel-for-truth-matters-news-literacy-education-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2023\/03\/17\/montclair-mayor-joins-msu-panel-for-truth-matters-news-literacy-education-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair Mayor Joins MSU Panel For \u2018Truth Matters\u2019 News Literacy Education Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January, Governor Phil Murphy signed a law making New Jersey the first state to require news literacy education for grades K-12<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mary Scott, a faculty advisor at ÌÇÐÄvlog, is leading a team of students who have created a news literacy campaign (@msutouchgrass<\/a>) to educate the campus community on how to spot and stop the spread of misinformation.<\/p>\n

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Montclair Mayor and President of NJEA Sean Spiller joins the Montclair State PRSSA Bateman Team (Left to Right: Miriam Aguirre, Driton Cadraku, Robyn Platz, Rami Niwash, Gabby Florendo, and (Montclair Native) Professor Mary Scott) at \u201cThe Truth Matters: Building a News Literate Nation\u201d panel discussion on campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

A recent panel discussion at MSU, \u201cThe Truth Matters: Building A News Literate Nation\u201d with WNBC\u2019s Pat Battle and Telemundo\u2019s Liz Gonzalez, was part of a month-long campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of misinformation. In collaboration with WNBC and WNJU\/Telemundo, students heard tips and experiences in navigating misinformation; the panel recording will be made available to all NJ high and middle school educators to support in news literacy education.<\/p>\n

Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller, who is also president of the New Jersey Education Association, along with other panelists, spoke of the challenges media organizations face when reporting accurate and timely news in today\u2019s 24\/7 news cycle.<\/p>\n

Scott says the team\u2019s efforts and content will be shared with New Jersey middle and high school educators to support Governor Murphy\u2019s new legislation mandating news literacy education for grades K-12. The campaign is part of a prestigious national PRSSA Bateman competition for their client News Literacy Project.<\/p>\nWatch the program<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In January, Governor Phil Murphy signed a law making New Jersey the first state to require news literacy education for grades K-12. Mary Scott, a faculty advisor at ÌÇÐÄvlog, is leading a team of students who have created a news literacy campaign (@msutouchgrass) to educate the campus community on how to spot and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":209565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209569,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209564\/revisions\/209569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}