[M]ust help people of all ages to learn skills that help them discriminate between
high-quality information, marketing hype, and silly or harmful junk. We must
raise the visibility and status of news and current events as powerful, engaging
resources for both K–12 and lifelong learning while we acknowledge the
challenges faced by journalism today and in the future” (p. xii).
This call to action reflects the growing need to incorporate news media literacy into formal and
informal education.