Mark Twain Library hosts program on fake news

Mark Twain Library’s two-part series on fake news kicks off this week.

The first session is 7:30 p.m. Thursday and will cover the evolving challenges in the newsroom and what news consumers need to know about digital media and how news is produced. It will be led by Merrill Brown and Mark Weinberg.

Brown launched MSNBC.com, wrote for a number of newspapers and was the director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. Weinberg is a digital media consultant who launched one of the first daily newspaper websites in the U.S. and helped create the country’s first digital newspaper network. He also served as executive editor and vice president for network programming at AOL and vice president of programming and product strategy for Hearst Magazines’ first digital media division.

Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to the second session at 7:30 p.m. on April 26. This session will focus on fact-checking, filters and media literacy. It will be led by Janine Johnson and Jacquelyn Whiting.

Whiting is a Google Certified Innovator focused on medial literacy, and an educator with 25 years’ experience in public high schools in Connecticut. Johnson is the library media specialist at Scotts Ridge Middle School in Ridgefield.

Please register online, at the library or call 203-938-2545 for information.