Journalism Professor Sissel McCarthy made the case that news literacy is a must-have core competency for all students at the CUNY IT Conference at John Jay College last week. In her talk, “How to Spot Fake News and Stay News Literate: A New Core Competency”, McCarthy told the audience about a Pew Research study earlier this year that shows 7 in 10 people have news fatigue and feel overwhelmed by the amount of news they encounter on their digital devices. New technologies that make it possible and profitable to spread misinformation are another challenge facing the public. Read More

Prof. Ivone Margulies’ book In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema will be available December 5th, 2018.

Book launch: Feb 1, 2019 | 6PM at Anthology Film Archives.
7:15PM: Prof. Margulies will be introducing the film series In Person-Reenactment starting with Abbas Kiarostami’s Close up.
Feb. 1 -12: Anthology will be showing all of the films featured in the book.

It is featured on The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The New York Times.

About the Book:
Close readings of select, historicized examples define an alternate, confessional-performative vein to understand the self-reflexive nature of postwar and post-holocaust testimonial cinemas. The book contextualizes Zavattini’s proposal that in neorealism everyone should act his own story in a sort of anti-individualist, public display (Love in the City and We the Women). Read More

MEDPL 283 News Video Reporting students made their on-air debuts last week as they learned how to read from a teleprompter and deliver the news from the Hunter North fourth floor studio. Fortune Magazine’s Susie Gharib, who anchored business programs for CNBC and PBS, gave the students three things to remember as they got into the anchor chair:

1. Sit up straight
2. Know what you’re talking about and
3. Think about why you are telling people this story and sell it!

She also encouraged students to pump up their enthusiasm and self-assurance. “When you sit down in that chair, you own that anchor desk,” said Gharib, adding that it’s important to project confidence to the audience.