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Reliable News Sources & Images: How to Locate and Cite

1. Preparation:  Create Noodletools Project

2. Determining Reliability: Authority and Bias of New Sources

from: Digital Literacy

Quick Check!

News articles:  Allsides

Images: Tin Eye: Reverse image Search

LSA Fake News & Fact Checking Guide

3. Advanced Searching Techniques: News, Art: photographs, art, tables and graphs

4.  Saving Search Results to Noodletools and Printing/Exporting Sources to Google Docs - Works Cited

21st CENTURY STUDENT EXPECTATIONS: CROSS CHECKING SOURCES & FACTS

I. Cross Check Accuracy with Several Premier News Sources

 

2021: Six Most Reliable News Sources 

                                               

                                          *Must register                                                                   *Use LSA Database                       *Aim for Interview Transcripts

 

   

[list provided by URI's Assoc. Professors Kendall Moore and John Pantalone during their presentation "Supporting Patrons in a Fake News World," February 2017]

 

II. Be Aware of Degree of Political Bias of Any/All Media Source(s)!

Click on this Interactive Chart to investigate degree of Political Bias by Media Agencies

Chart created by: Ad Fonts Media, LLC

 ? Left    Center    Right ?: Search Allsides.com to avoid Bias !

Origin of Photos/Images: Tineye: Reverse Image Searching

SAMPLE: GLOBAL WARMING THEME

WEB SEARCH: NEWS MEDIA SOURCES - USE TOPIC, AUTHOR/BYLINE!

"Google"  Source Creators and Publishers

"Author's Name"

"New Source/Organization's Name"

"Name of Interviewees"

NOTE: Online News Sources May Require Registration to Search! Register as a Student

LSA DATABASE RESOURCES: NEWS

DATABASE SOURCES - NEED REMOTE LOGIN!

 

Remote Login for E-Sources Reminder (if off-campus)

After logging in to Blackbaud: Locate and Click on Resources->Library Title

IMAGES, CAPTIONS, & CITATIONS

LSA DATABASE SOURCES-NEED REMOTE LOGIN!

Remote Login for E-Sources Reminder (if off-campus)

After logging into Blackbaud: Locate and Click on Resources->Library Title

EXCELLENT WEBSOURCES FOR IMAGES:

PURDUE OWL (Online Writing Lab) - Online Citation Help