In the News
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1. Determining whether online news can be trusted

2. Context

• Amnesty International
• CIA World Fact Book (comprehensive information about the world's countries)​​
• Climate Central
• Current events in historical perspective (Ohio State U.)​
• Exodus (video about immigration)
• Exodus: The journey continues
• Freedom House
• Freedom in the world (map - ranking of countries on 100-point scale measuring civil liberties and political rights) (Freedom House)
• Globalchange.gov
• Global Climate Change (NASA)
• Human Rights Watch
• International Rescue Committee
• Middle East and North Africa (World Bank)
• National Geography Resource Library
• Our World in Data
• ReliefWeb
• UN High Commission for Refugees
• UN Refugee Agency
• Visual Capitalist (infographics)
• What are rights? (analysis of the types of rights -- civil, human, natural, etc.)
• World Economic Forum
• World Food Program (UN)
• World health risks (WHO)
• WorldMapper (visual representations of current trends​

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3. News

• BBC Reality Check
• Behind the News (short videos form HS students produced by ABC, Australia's news service)
• CNN 10​
• CNN VR (virtual reality videos)
• Coda (alternative journalism)
• DogoNews
• Facing History and Ourselves (Current Events)
• Fareed Zakaria's columns
• Google News (aggregates many newspapers)
• International News Stories (Pulitzer Center)
• KidsPost (Washington Post)
• National Geographic Kids
• NBC News Learn
• New York Times Video
• New York Times 360 (virtual reality)
• New York Times Learning Network
• New York Times Global Issues
• Newsela (sign in with school account)
• News in levels (same article at different reading levels)
• PBS News Hour Extra
• TeenTribune
• Today's front pages (Newseum)
• Voice of America
• Vox
• Youngzine