News Literacy and problems of modern media education

In 2013, for the first time in Russia the Faculty of Media Communications (National Research University «Higher School of Economics») created and included as a compulsory program the News Literacy Course (attended in 2013-2014 by about two hundred undergraduate students).

In March 2014 The First Conference on this area was organized and held with a great success and attracted a large number of Russian and foreign participants from the USA, France, Brazil, India, Poland, Armenia, Ukraine.