Guides · Culture

Media Literacy Checklist Basics

Read news and media critically

This guide provides a practical media literacy checklist: evaluate source credibility, distinguish reporting from opinion, check primary evidence, watch for incentives and framing, and verify with multiple outlets.

media literacy
misinformation
sources
fact checking
bias

Check the source

Look for transparent authorship, corrections, and separation of news vs opinion.

Find the evidence

Prefer claims backed by primary documents, data, or direct quotes.

Watch incentives and framing

Notice emotional language, selective examples, and what is omitted.

Verify across outlets

Cross-check with other reputable sources and read original materials when possible.

Keep Exploring

Guides

Evaluating Sources Online

A source is more trustworthy when its evidence, authorship, incentives, and track record hold up together.

Examples

Logical Fallacy

Logical fallacies are persuasive-seeming errors that make arguments weaker, sloppier, or misleading.

What it is

Cultural Appropriation

Cultural appropriation happens when borrowed cultural elements lose context, credit, or respect.