Libraries' Forum Targets Fake News
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — iBerkshires.com will participate in a public forum on Monday sponsored by the Milne and North Adams public libraries on so-called "fake news."
"Fact or Fabrication in Today's News" takes place on Monday, March 27, at 7 p.m. at the Williamstown Youth Center.
Intended as an educational rather than a partisan conversation, it will feature a panel of journalists, educators and a library advocate taking questions on how news is presented and consumed in modern culture and how that process affects our views as informed citizens and voters.
Panelists will touch on the state of media literacy; ways to improve it and the role schools and libraries can play in meeting that challenge. Audience participation is encouraged.
State First Berkshire District Rep. Gail Cariddi, D-North Adams, will moderate.
Journalists on the panel are Tammy Daniels, managing editor of iBerkshires; Carrie Saldo, a Berkshire Eagle news reporter with a background in radio and television; and Martin Langeveld, former publisher of The Eagle and the former North Adams Transcript, who currently comments on the future of media on his blog "News After Newspapers."
Educators are Jennifer Browdy, associate professor of comparative literature at Simon's Rock of Bard College, who is teaching a course on "Media Production and Consumption in the Age of Fake News and Alternative Facts"; Shawn McIntosh, a journalist who teaches English and communications at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and the primary adviser to The Beacon student newspaper; and Peter Niemeyer, history teacher at Mount Greylock Regional High School and adviser to the Mount Greylock Echo student newspaper.
Krista McLeod, director of the Nevins Memorial Library in Methuen and a member of the Massachusetts Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee, will speak to the role of libraries.
The session will be videotaped by WilliNet for later viewing on television Channel 17 and at WilliNet.org.
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