The second annual National News Literacy Week, which will raise awareness of news literacy as a fundamental life skill, will be held Jan. 25-Jan. 29, 2021.

The initiative, presented by The E.W. Scripps Company and the nonprofit News Literacy Project, will provide educators, students and the general public with easy-to-implement tips and tools to help them sort fact from fiction in today’s media landscape.

The public will have access to lessons from the News Literacy Project’s e-learning platform, Checkology® virtual classroom, while Scripps’ 60 local television stations and national media brands will publish stories and run a national advertising campaign focused on the critical need for news literacy and the important role of a free press in a healthy democracy. Scripps’ stations will work with high schools in their communities to produce original pieces of student journalism that will focus on issues of importance to local audiences and will further promote understanding of news literacy.

Want to help drive awareness of news literacy and National News Literacy Week? Creative (digital, social, on-air, audio) assets are available for media organizations interested in joining the conversation.

Join our webinar on Jan. 14 to learn more. 

Please contact Rebecca Cochran ( Rebecca.Cochran@scripps.com ) or Amanda Brown ( Amanda.Brown@scripps.com ) for more information.