Global news literacy collaboration in NW China

Pulitzer Center associate director Nathalie Applewhite was joined by Alex Stonehill of the Common Language project to present the Pulitzer Gateway, an online portal that integrates multimedia resources from reporting on systemic level global issues, and invites students to respond to questions and ask their own to the reporters, or to students in other countries. The portal includes a special section where students can upload a short video and share their own story and then literally put it “on the map” through a dynamic 3D geographic browser. The site is tied into curriculum, and visits to select classrooms by the journalists.

Nathalie Applewhite, the managing director of the site, and Alex Stonehill one of the journalists involved in the launch of Pulitzer Gateway, described the Gateway project, talked about the recent introduction into classrooms in Seattle, St. Louis, Miami and new York, and showed examples from the prototype VIEW WATER WARS GATEWAY.

They talked about how the Gateway invites students to become news “literate” by providing direct contact to the journalists, encouraging them to become producers of information on the topics presented, and by challenging them to think about why this kind of news so rarely gets the attention it deserves. LEARN MORE