News Literacy: How to Distinguish Between Noise and News

Hot Plate/Topics | This course is completed

7 Blue Sky Drive Hanover, NH 03755 United States

The Lodge

Hot Plates, Hot Topics

5/24/2019-5/28/2019

12:00 PM-2:00 PM EDT on Fri

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$40.00

These days, thanks to the internet, anyone can be a publisher, offering "alternative facts" and outlandish conspiracy theories to receptive audiences. Inconvenient truths from legitimate news organizations are frequently being attacked as "fake news." How did we get into this mess and what can we do about it?

Choose from one of the following entrées the day of the lecture:

Vegetarian dish
Beef dish
Chicken dish
Fish dish

  • $30 course fee includes lecture and meal.
Stern, Dennis

Dennis Stern has worked as a journalist and newspaper executive for most of his career, including 28 years at the New York Times. At the Times, he held various editing roles in the news department before moving to the business side to become deputy general manager. He gets his daily dose of news from numerous sources: in print from the Times, the Valley News and the Washington Post and on-line from at least a half-dozen web sites, some more trustworthy than others. He lives in Lyme.