News Literacy Fellows in Asia 2015 in Yangon, Myanmar
Channel: HKU Journalism & Media
Date: 2016-03-09

How do you verify information on the web?  Has a picture on a website been Photoshopped? Is a tweet reliable? For the fourth straight year, the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at the University of Hong Kong hosted a news literacy workshop in December 2015 in collaboration with the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University. 

The workshop was held at the Myanmar Institute of Theology in Yangon, Myanmar. It aimed at media educators in the region who would like to teach how to judge the accuracy and authenticity of what their students read and watch.

Since 2012, educators from China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bhutan, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Philippines and India have participated in the news literacy training in Asia. 

For more information, visit JMSC website @ https://jmsc.hku.hk/?s=news+literacy