NLP AR FY22 - Paperturn - Flipbook - Page 3
Dear Friends of NLP,
This past year, the world has contended with
devastating crises that were exacerbated by the
proliferation of mis- and disinformation — which
further undermined democracy. Steadfast throughout
these challenges were educators, journalists, students
and young people — ordinary heroes who stood firm
in upholding our shared democratic values, including
the importance of a free press and fact-based
public discourse. That’s why we are hopeful about a
common future founded on facts. And you’ll see the
rationale for that hope in these pages. Just consider
what we’ve achieved together over the past year:
With your support, more than 16,000 educators
(a 20% increase over the previous year) used
any number of our free resources to serve an
estimated 2.4 million students in all 50 states.
We also successfully concluded our fouryear strategic plan, a journey you took with
us to help NLP reach national scale.
We hope in these pages you feel pride in the
accomplishments we’ve made and take heart in the
stories of our educators and students. Your interest
in, partnership with, and championing of NLP have
made our work possible. Now we set out to transform
our mission into a national movement in the pursuit
of a more civically engaged, information-savvy
America. And we hope you will continue to stand
with us as we harness your individual energy into
a collective strength that ensures a more robust,
equitable democracy for generations to come.
Sincerely yours,
We created more content for our Checkology
virtual classroom than ever before, including
a three-part science component that explores
how to get data-savvy, evaluate science-based
claims and identify health misinformation.
We launched a lesson on editorial cartooning that
features political cartoonists explaining the importance
of this form of opinion journalism. Additionally, we are
developing a lesson for release in early 2023 that explores
the roots of distrust of the news media and “expertise.”
Greg McCaffery
Board Chair
Chuck Salter
President and CEO
We dropped a new season of our podcast Is that a
fact?, where we explored the origins of false narratives
and the harm they cause. And our third annual
National News Literacy Week, in partnership with
The E.W. Scripps Company, reached over 48 million
people across the nation, encouraging them to “stop
the flood” of misinformation while underscoring
the vital role of news literacy in a democracy.
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