The Ford Foundation has provided $200,000 to see the formation of the nation's first "news literacy center" -- at Stony Brook University on Long Island, and an editorial-page editor is leaving his daily-newspaper job to head it. Editor & Publisher magazine reported Sept. 26 that Newsday's Jim Klurfeld will head the center, "a resource center to develop curriculum for high-school instruction and secondary-teacher training programs, and design conferences, seminars, lectures and workshops that will bring together scholars and journalists to explore
issues related to the reliability of news from print, broadcast and the web," according to a release.
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