Citizen Watchdogs

Average Duration

60+ Minutes

Difficulty Level

3

Lesson Host

Tamerra Griffin

of the nonprofit journalism organization, Rest of World (formerly of BuzzFeed News)

About this lesson

You learn the ways that they and others can document and expose wrongdoing, including monitoring news coverage for breaches of journalism standards, by examining a series of case studies.

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