Selected Media Coverage for the News Study

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​”Fake news making college students question all news,” Daniel Funke, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, October 16, 2018.

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“College students as news consumers,” Barbara Fister, Inside Higher Education, October 15, 2018.

Media Coverage for Previous PIL Reports

 “AFRICA: Fake News on the Rise — What Can Universities Do?” Wagdy Sawahel, University World News, December 12, 2019.

 “Best (and Worst) Practice for Designing Learning Spaces,”
Barbara Fister, Inside Higher Education,
December 6, 2016.

‘Information Literacy and Recent Graduates: New from PIL,” Barbara Fister, Inside Higher Education, January 7, 2016.

“For Tech Careers, It’s Not About What You Studied, It’s About What You Learned,” John Mello, Monster.com Tech Section, June 11, 2015.

“A New Report from Project Information Literacy,” Barbara Fister, Inside Higher Education, February 25, 2015.

“What PIL Teaches Us about Lifelong Learning,” Barbara Fister, Library Journal, August 7, 2014.

“Project Info Lit and the ‘Ginormous’ Problem,” Karen Schneider, Free Range Librarian, December 16, 2013.

“Research Brief: Next Generation Information-Seeking Behaviors,” Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL), NASA, July 3, 2013.

“Studying the Studies: The Big Four,” Steven Bell, Library Journal, May 15, 2013.

“Can the Digital Generation Do Anything Right?” Jason Tomassini, Education Week, November 12, 2012.

“Search People, Not the Internet,” Justin Reich, EdTech Researcher, Education Week, November 12, 2012.

“Thrown a Curve: Our Anti-Social Graduates at Work,” Barbara Fister, Peer to Peer Review, Library Journal, October 18, 2012.

“Project Information Literacy: Inventing the Workplace,” Barbara Fister, Inside Higher Education, October 15, 2012.

“Before Technology, the Power of Asking Questions,” Justin Reich, EdTech Researcher, Education Week, October 11, 2012.

“Digital Scholarship Allows the Media to Magnify the Power and Reach of Academic Research,” John Wihbey, London School of Economics and Political Science blog post, April 5, 2012.

“Study of the Day: Yes, Students Know When to Put the Tech Away,” Hans Villarica, The Atlantic, October 21, 2011.

“Course Assignments Fail to Train Undergraduates for Research in the Digital Age,” Education-Portal.com, August 6, 2010.

“Information Literacy: A Call to Action,” Sharon Weiner, College and Research Library News, July/August 2010.

“Research Assignment Handouts Give Students Meager Guidance,” Kelly Truong, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 27, 2010.

“Assignments: Being Clear about What Matters,” Barbara Fister, Inside Higher Ed, July 22, 2010.

“Students Use Wikipedia Early and Often, Study Shows,” Mary Helen Miller, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 16, 2010.

“Information Literacy: A Neglected Core Competency,” Sharon A. Weiner, Educause Quarterly, Vol. 33, Number 1, 2010. (The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.)