Ask better questions.
Eric Jourgensen is an educator, journalist, author, and speaker focused on credibility, context, verification, and what happens when the facts are true but the picture they create is not.
“How do you know?
Media literacy is not about distrusting everything. It is about matching confidence to evidence, noticing what is missing, and slowing certainty down long enough to investigate it.
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Everything I Told You Was True
How selective truth, framing, authority, repetition, and missing context can mislead without requiring a single fabricated statement.
The WATER Check
Wait. Ask. Trace. Examine. Respond. Five repeatable moves for deciding what a claim has actually earned.
From classroom to conference
Interactive sessions on news literacy, AI, journalism education, student media, and the dangerous chemical called dihydrogen monoxide.
Life Between the Lessons
Essays about education, technology, journalism, AI, culture, and the things that happen between the official learning objectives.
Read on SubstackDo not confuse a credibility cue with credibility.
A polished website, a verified account, a credential, a viral post, or a confident AI answer can all be signals. None is a verdict.