Before a capacity crowd in Presentation Hall today, 火狐体育火狐体育州立 传播与媒体学院 students learned more about the importance of media literacy and combating misinformation from a distinguished panel of media experts.

帕特战役, Anchor and Reporter at NBC 4 New York/WNBC, 莉斯冈萨雷斯, Consumer Reporter at Telemundo 47/WNJU, 本干了, Vice President of Digital at NBC 4 New York/WNBC and Telemundo 47/WNJU, and 邦德·本顿博士, SCM Associate Professor of Public Relations, discussed the challenges media organizations face when reporting accurate and timely news in today’s 24/7 news cycle. Keith Strudler博士学院传播与媒体学院院长刘振宇主持了讨论。

小组成员分享了他们职业生涯中的观点、技巧和轶事。 在长达一小时的讨论中，一些亮点包括：

• 对于未来的记者来说，核实信息的重要性是一个很好的建议。 “It’s a constant process. Double check everything,” Battle said. “Your official sources aren’t always on the money, either. If I don’t believe in the source or my information, I won’t do the story.” 冈萨雷斯还表示，消息来源可能有最好的意图，但他们可能并不总是正确的。 “People may give you information and may think it’s true, but (sometimes) it’s not.”
• 关于打击向服务不足的社区提供错误信息，特别是在报道卫生和政治等专题时： “We have a lot of work to do to educate our more vulnerable communities,” Gonzalez said. “We look at what misconceptions are out there. 我们知道有很多恐惧。 We look at who we can interview and can explain why people might be confused.”
• 伯克维茨分享了该组织用来验证信息的三条准则： 分享信息的人是否被授权这样做，信息传播的速度有多快，你能对信息进行三角测量（增强有效性）吗？
• Berkowitz also shared his philosophy on the importance of speed vs. accuracy, which in the digital age is still paramount despite that many people, social media platforms or news organizations are not always held accountable for misinformation or disinformation: “You can never be faster than right.”
• 本顿强调了当地新闻报道的重要性，并强调了诸如NBC 4纽约/WNBC和Telemundo 47/WNJU等媒体提供的报道: “By far, the number one type of outlet people trust in the media is local news. What they are doing is making local relationships.”

The entire one-hour discussion is available on SCM’s free streaming service, 鹰+, and the NBC 4纽约网站.

The event was part of SCM’s 新闻 Literacy Week February 20-24 and a larger campaign developed by a team of SCM students who are participating in the ‘22-23 Public Relations Student Society of America’s (PRSSA) Bateman Case Study Competition to support the goals of its client 新闻 Literacy Project. 新闻 literacy was recently added to the State of New Jersey’s public school curriculum for K-12 students.

SCM Bateman团队开发了一项动态的“触摸草，检查事实”活动，旨在教育和授权大学校园和社区发现和阻止错误信息的传播。 The team also created @msutouchgrass accounts on Instagram and TikTok.

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