Whitman To Host News Literacy Project's Fall Forum

New York Times columnist David Brooks and the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne will speak Wednesday evening during the News Literacy Project’s second annual fall forum at

The News Literacy Project, a national news education program, was founded by Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter and Bethesda resident Alan Miller. The project to teach middle and high school students to sort fact from fiction in the face of an onslaught of information in the digital age.

The project launched in the classroom in 2009 at a middle school in Brooklyn, a high school in Manhattan, and Whitman in Bethesda. Today, the program is in place at Whitman, E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., and schools in New York City and Chicago.

Wednesday evening, Brooks and Dionne will discuss “Demosclerosis: The Challenge of Moving America Forward in a Hyper-Partisan Age” during the project’s fall forum. The forum will be moderated by CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and middle school, high school and college students. The program begins at 7:30p.m. Wednesday night at Tickets can be purchased online or at the box office beginning at 6:30p.m. Cash and checks are preferred the night of the event.

For more information, visit the News Literacy Project’s website or call 240-506-0567.