The News Literacy Project is offering a series of online workshops to help secondary-school educators across the country incorporate news literacy into their classrooms. The workshops are part of the News Literacy Project’s new series Teaching News Literacy, which also offers after-school and in-class programs, as well as in-person teaching sessions for educators in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.

The workshops will help educators understand what news literacy means and explore real-world examples. The first of the four online workshops provided an overview of news literacy and was held Nov. 12. Three more sessions will be held once each month until February and will focus on bias, civic engagement and news in the 21st century, respectively. To register, visit thenewsliteracyproject.org.

The News Literacy Project is an educational program that teaches middle- and high- school students how to recognize false or biased information in the digital age. By working with experienced teachers and professional journalists, the project develops students’ critical-thinking and research skills and encourages them to become engaged citizens who read and produce good journalism.

“We view news literacy as an essential survival skill in an information age as a student, consumer and citizen,” said Alan Miller, president and founder of the News Literacy Project and Pulitzer Prize-winning former investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. “We believe that we are on the cusp of moving to national scale through our ambitious digital initiatives and major new partnerships, including our collaboration with ASNE on the National Community and News Literacy Roundtables.”