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Author Brown, Robin Terry, author.

Title Breaking the news : what's real, what's not, and why the difference matters / Robin Terry Brown ; foreword by Susan Goldberg.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2020.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Teen  YA 070.9 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J 070.9 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Children's Department  J 302.3 BRO    DUE 05-15-24
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  J 070.9 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 070.4 BROWN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Jefferson Branch - Children's Department  J070 BRO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J070 BRO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J070.9 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Children  J Current Events 070.9 BRO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Tween  TWEEN 070.9 BROWN    Check Shelf

Description 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Series National Geographic kids
National Geographic kids.
Summary "Headlines leap out at us from mobile phones, TV screens, computers, newspapers, and everywhere we turn. Technology has opened up exciting new ways to tell interesting stories, but how much of it is news ... and how much is just noise? This refreshing and up-to-date media literacy book gives kids the tools they need to distinguish what is fact from what is fiction so that they can make smart choices about what to believe." -- Amazon.com.
"A look at culture's relationship with journalism, and an effort to teach kids what is "real" versus "fake" news"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [150]-152) and index.
Contents The history of news -- Making the news -- Propaganda, half-truths, and hoaxes -- Media today -- Finding the truth -- The future of news -- Major events in news history -- Meet the experts.
Audience Ages 10 and up National Geographic Kids.
Grades 7-9 National Geographic Kids.
Subject Journalism -- History.
Fake news -- Juvenile literature.
Fake news. (OCoLC)fst01985391
Journalism. (OCoLC)fst00984032
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / General.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
History.
Instructional and educational works.
Illustrated works.
Added Author Goldberg, Susan, 1960- writer of foreword.
Added Title Breaking the news
ISBN 9781426338885 (hardcover)
1426338880 (hardcover)
9781426338892 (library binding)
1426338899 (library binding)
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