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How to Be A Smart News Consumer in the Digital Age

Sari Zeidler, Neighbor

 

How do you decide what's news and what's not? Can a blog or social media sites be trusted? Just because it's online, on TV or in print, does that make it real?

Learn how to decipher fact from fiction in a program sponsored by the Press Club of Long Island and Hofstra on Wednesday, Oct. 27, featuring a news-gathering and news-judgment simulation, a panel discussion on media literacy and a buffet dinner.

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The program, "How to Be A Smart News Consumer in the Digital Age," will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Hofstra Student Center Theater and Multi-Purpose Room following dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Panelists:

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Doug Geed
, News 12 Long Island anchor

Joye Brown
, Columnist
Newsday

Paul Mihailidis,
 Hofstra Assistant Professor of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations

 

Moderator:

Evan W. Cornog
Dean, School of Communication
Hofstra University

Hofstra is located at on Hempstead Turnpike in Hempstead. 

Pre-registration is required at www.pcli.org


 

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