Dear Media Literacy Proponents and Enthusiasts, GMLP’s 2011 Media Literacy Week has come to a close. Again, we’re both exhausted and elated. Our celebration of Marshall McLuhan’s centennial birth date was full and memorable. Our partners performed in exemplary fashion. The conversations were lively and thought-provoking, especially given our media climate, today. You may […]
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A Look Back, a Look Forward: Celebrating McLuhan…All Over Again
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CORO Fellows Meet with GMLP
By Jessica Z. Brown, GMLP president It’s always wonderful when young aspiring professionals, especially those young adults interested in our community’s welfare for the long term, take time to interview those of us at GMLP. . It was no different, March 21, when GMLP vice-president/Webster University professor, Art Silverblatt and I sat for an hour-long […]
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President’s Message: A Year Full of Promise!
Greetings, Media Literacy Proponents and Enthusiasts, Expressing gratitude is something we don’t take lightly here at GMLP, nor can we do it enough. We are thankful, ALWAYS, for the citizens associated with or who follow us. Together we make up a citizenry that understands media literacy offers a nexus for change. As such, last […]
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St. Louis Beacon Comments on Arrival of AOL’s PATCH Community News Site
St. Louis Beacon editor Margaret Freivogel recently commented on the newest community news site to hit the St. Louis area: AOL’s Patch. Freivogel asks the right questions regarding PATCH’s prospects as a viable contribution to the bi-state region. Responding to Freivogel’s piece is a comment from PATCH’s Kurt Greenbaum. We feel this article is of […]
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President’s Message: Remaining Relentless
As timing would have it, just as we were about to publish my latest president’s message, GMLP received word it would be cited in a white paper, “Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan for Action,” to be delivered in Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. It was definitely news that commanded a re-write. Background: Our friend and […]
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President’s Message: Comfort Zones Redefined…Maybe!
By Jessica Z. Brown, President, Gateway Media Literacy Partners My husband often asks me why I submit to so many phone surveys, especially before the elections. Well, I did that work many years ago, and I can attest, the phone abuse was palpable, especially in relationship to my paltry salary. So, for one thing, […]
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Introducing GMLP’s 2010 Media Literacy Week Guest Contributors
Gateway Media Literacy Partners is again presenting to the St. Louis region (Missouri and Illinois) a week’s worth of events to bring attention to media literacy and how a media literacy education can help us better relate to and even act on timely issues and concerns. This year we’ve added a new offering, in keeping […]
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Media Literacy Week 2013
- Why Media Literacy is Important – 2013 Guest Contributors
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Understanding America via Media Literacy: A Chinese Student’s View
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Inclusion, Acceptance and Equality
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Making the Pieces Fit: One Journalist’s View
