{"id":24701,"date":"2025-01-26T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T20:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/?page_id=24701"},"modified":"2025-01-26T20:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T01:04:38","slug":"media-literacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/practitioner-taught-courses\/media-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Term 2025: Is That True? Practicum in Media Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Practitioner-in-Residence: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elizabeth-hartfield-7a257843\/\">Elizabeth Hartfield<\/a> &#8217;08, VP of News, CNN<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding where news originates and the work that goes into reporting is a critical skill in today\u2019s world. This course seeks to teach students how to verify and report information, and ultimately equip them with the skills to navigate the proliferation of both misinformation and disinformation in our modern age. Students will learn how journalists approach covering complex stories where the truth is not black and white and\u00a0explore the unintended consequences that can result from social media posts, regardless of whether they are true.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing, critical thinking, questioning and even occasional cold calling are critical skills \u2013 students will be asked to do all of these as part of their course of study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/files\/2025\/01\/IMG_3238-400x300.webp\" alt=\"Person with sunglasses and dark tshirt with mountains in the background\" class=\"wp-image-24770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/files\/2025\/01\/IMG_3238-400x300.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/files\/2025\/01\/IMG_3238-200x149.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/files\/2025\/01\/IMG_3238.webp 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learning Goals<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Students will gain the tools and skills to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Write and report news stories in real time, with confidence in its veracity and sources<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Navigate the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation and verify information they read in the media&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interview key information holders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analyze how social media posts can quickly become an accepted narrative without any proof<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class Schedule: <\/strong>Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10-12 and 1-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Instructor Bio<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Hartfield is an Emmy Award winning journalist with 15 years of experience working in broadcast and digital news. She is currently a Vice President at CNN where she oversees the networks\u2019 coverage of the eastern half of the United States, along with CNN\u2019s business and media coverage. During her time at CNN Elizabeth has overseen reporting efforts for major news stories including the first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump, the unrest on college campuses following the October 7<sup>th<\/sup> attacks, and the 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. Elizabeth has covered five presidential elections in the field and in the control room, and produced interviews with world leaders including Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and King Abdullah of Jordan. Prior to joining CNN Elizabeth worked as a researcher at CBS News and as an off-air reporter at ABC News covering politics. Elizabeth graduated from Bates College with a degree in Religion in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practitioner-in-Residence: Elizabeth Hartfield &#8217;08, VP of News, CNN Understanding where news originates&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"parent":84,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-24701","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24701"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24776,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24701\/revisions\/24776"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}