How to choose your news - Damon Brown
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With the
advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an
incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets.
How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside
scoop on how the opinions and facts (and sometimes non-facts) make their
way into the news and how the smart reader can tell them apart.
So-called “citizen journalism” has exploded as smartphones, glasses-based cameras, and other tools make it easier for average people to report breaking news. What are some of the positives and negatives with citizen journalism?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Damon Brown
- Producer Aaron Augenblick
- Director Alisa Harris-Norico
- Compositor Kristofer Wollinger
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Addison Anderson
