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Breaking the News: What's Real, What's Not, and Why the Difference Matters

by Robin Terry Brown

Making sense of the news

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Making sense of the news

Robin Terry Brown’s guide places today’s headlines in a broader history of news and examines how changing technology shapes the way stories reach the public. It introduces media-literacy questions through topics including freedom of speech, journalistic ethics, propaganda, and the future of news. Profiles of journalists, facts, and photographs add historical and visual context, while the book’s central distinction—information versus noise—connects its subjects to the choices young people make about what to believe and share.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young readers interested in journalism and how news is produced
  • Readers learning to assess information and misinformation in media
  • Children curious about the history and future of news

Themes

Media literacyNews historyMisinformation and propagandaFreedom of speech and journalistic ethicsResponsibility in media

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Book overview

In this timely and relevant title, National Geographic Kids shines a light on the history of news to reveal where we started, how far we've come, and the serious impact that misinterpretation and misinformation can have on the world.

Headlines leap out at us from mobile phones, TV screens, computers, newspapers, and everywhere we turn. Technology has opened up exciting new ways to tell interesting stories, but how much of it is news ... and how much is just noise? This refreshing and up-to-date media literacy book gives kids the tools they need to distinguish what is fact from what is fiction so that they can make smart choices about what to believe.

Topics cover a broad range, from defining freedom of speech, the journalists' code of ethics, the dangers of propaganda, and the future of news.

Packed with profiles of influential journalists, fun facts, and iconic photographs, this ultimate guide to the information age will get kids thinking about their relationship and responsibility to media.
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