The Quality Question: How To Create High-Quality Children’s Media
2025-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Fordham University at Lincoln Center, 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
We know it when we see it (or hear it, or read it), but what qualities make content high-quality?
The Department of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University invites you to join the Children’s Media Association (CMA) and the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) for CMA’s first-ever crowdsourced panel led by creators within our community discussing what defines—and how to create—quality content.

Countering Information Manipulation: A Social Change Approach
2025-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Propaganda and disinformation are polluting our digital spaces and fueling our divisions as a society. Even casual conversations can feel fraught in these times. People care deeply about these realities but often don’t know what to do about them.
In this Media Literacy Week (MLW) talk, social change and communications strategist Deanna Troust will explore these dynamics and share simple but powerful ways each of us can be part of the solution set in addressing them.
Standards-based journalism — at the local level, especially — is a key antidote to the spread of false and harmful content. Deanna’s co-speaker will be a local Baltimore journalist who will offer a window into reporting processes in covering local Baltimore newsworthy events.
Deanna Troust is a communications strategist, consultant, and founder of truthincommon.org.
Deanna will be introduced by Dr. Stephanie Flores-Koulish, Professor of Education at Loyola University MD and Vice President for NAMLE’s Board of Directors.

Media Decoding Resource Demo: The Painted Church
2025-10-28 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
In this interactive Zoom session, Niki Casserly will demonstrate the use of a slide presentation developed as a resource for Media Literacy Week 2025 called The Painted Church. The workshop will include tips for leading similar media decoding sessions. Previous experience or training in Constructivist Media decoding is not required.
