Media Literacy News and Blog Posts

Are journalists lacking ambition in a disordered news cycle? Or has the public’s degenerative attention span stopped allowing for continued interest in the world’s most momentous affairs? Here are five reasons why major stories fall out of the mainstream media’s view.

Educators are experiencing the direct impact of polarization in their classrooms, including receiving memos prohibiting the discussion of political topics with both students and staff.

As we broke this national news story, our team members were debating it and misconceptions were running rampant.

The story was picked up by Axios, Fox News, Newsweek, USA TODAY, and other major sources.

AllSides engages students in civic learning through experience. Students can use the AllSides app, balanced news feed, media bias chart, and newsletter to cultivate an understanding that all media is biased — and that’s okay.

This week is Media Literacy Week! Media literacy empowers people to be critical thinkers and makers, effective communicators, and active citizens.

AI will add new challenges to the election process in 2024, the likes of which voters have never dealt with before.

The event's theme was "Community Building Since 1873."

Cognitive biases — such as primacy bias, priming, anchoring, and recency bias — play a key role in how politicians and the media interact with voters.

At AllSides, bias is not about blame or finding fault. It is about helping readers and our entire democracy to understand each other better.