Replay: Media Literacy Week Special

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News Time is celebrating Media Literacy Week with a takeover by eight-year-old budding journalist Rosie. Rosie grills regular News Time host, Ruby, about how the media works, where news comes from and how we know whether a story is fake. When you're finished listening to the podcast, take this quiz to test your knowledge: QUESTIONS: 1. What is 'breaking' news? 2. What is a news 'source'? 3. What is a 'byline'? 4. Whose job is it to 'fact-check' information? 5. Which of these skills does Ruby say is the most important for budding journalists: Writing, talking, or listening? ANSWERS: 1. News that's happening right at that moment. 2. People or places journalists get their information from. 3. The reporter's name on the story. 4. The journalist's. 5. Listening.