Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age

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Day 4: How Journalists Minimize Bias

Description

Bias can have a significant influence on the way we as individuals and as a community respond to troubling events that are complicated by the racial identities of the people involved. Recognizing and seeking to limit the power and inevitability of human bias is not only an indispensable component of producing quality journalism, it is also a critical skill for consumers and sharers of news and information. This lesson begins with students experiencing firsthand the challenges of producing neutral reporting by writing a “straight news” account based on a short video. This activity is followed by a video of journalists talking about their strategies for minimizing the influence of bias in their work. 


Learning Goals:

  • Students will be able to understand the standards of quality journalism that are designed to minimize the influence of individual and group biases.
  • Students will be able to recognize how biases affect the way people perceive the world around them, including the information they encounter.
  • Students will be able to identify some of the challenges of dispassionate, “objective” reporting.

Summary

Essential Questions: How do biases and stereotypes influence the way we interpret the world around us? How can both journalists and media consumers address issues of bias in themselves and others?

Anticipated Timeframe: 1 class period

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