UNESCO and the University of Texas' Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas invite you to register for the free online course "Digital Content Creators and Journalists: How To Be a Trusted Voice Online" and to download the new e-book "Content Creators and Journalists: Redefining News and Credibility in the Digital Age."
If you're teaching or researching social media, audience engagement, authenticity and objectivity in journalism, ethics, or media and information literacy, then this course and e-book are for you!
"Digital Content Creators and Journalists: How To Be a Trusted Voice Online" is a free online, asynchronous course running Nov. 18 to Dec. 15, 2024, and offered in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Open to aspiring and seasoned content creators wanting to incorporate more journalistic practices, journalists wanting to better connect with their audiences, or anyone looking to better understand the changing media landscape, this course is now open for enrollment Oct. 24, 2024. Sign up now, and encourage your students to enroll, too!
Led by instructors Salla-Rosa Leinonen of Finland's public broadcaster Yle, and Enrique Anarte Lazo of Openly, the Thomson Reuters Foundation's global LGBTQ+ news platform, this four-week online course will equip participants with the theoretical and practical tools necessary to build trust with audiences, understand the ethical responsibilities that come with shaping public opinion, create content for conflicts and crises, and advocate for media and information literacy.
Coinciding with the course, the Knight Center also published "Content Creators and Journalists: Redefining News and Credibility in the Digital Age," a must-have edited collection of lessons and observations from digital creators and journalists around the world. Edited by Summer Harlow, associate director of the Knight Center and visiting associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the book sheds light on the emerging importance of influencers in the news media landscape.
With 105 pages of interviews, research, first-hand accounts from news content creators like Dylan Page (aka News Daddy) and Kassy Cho (founder of Almost), illustrations, best practices, and more, this e-book offers unprecedented insights into the rise of influencers in journalism. Scholars and students alike will find this book useful, so download it for free in English today! Spanish and Portuguese versions are coming soon.
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