Our Summer Institute for Journalism Education, a collaboration between our Communications Media and English Studies departments, is an inaugural program and is focused on the theme of "Teaching Tomorrow’s Citizens Today: News Literacy as a Tool for Critical Education."
This institute is a wonderful opportunity to develop key concepts in your research, apply new lessons to the classroom, and address educators across the Commonwealth and beyond about issues facing journalism, news literacy, and new media technologies.
After an introductory information session at our IdeaLab, Communications Media Professor Kyle Moody and English Studies professors Wafa Unus and Collin Syfert brought attendees to Fitchburg Access Television (FATV) where Executive Director Nathan Glenny provided a background of the importance of Access Television in the landscape of news coverage, as well as a tour of the facility.
