Poynter’s MediaWise to expand youth media literacy education with $750,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation

Young people today are navigating a media environment unlike any generation before them. Non-stop news, disinformation and AI-generated content make it harder than ever to know what to trust. Educators face growing pressure to help students make sense of it all, often without the tools or training to do it.

Poynter’s MediaWise, the nation’s pre-eminent media literacy initiative, is stepping in to meet that challenge, thanks to a $750,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, formerly  Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

The funding will expand resources that help young audiences think critically about the online content they encounter. It will provide educators, creators and students with engaging and useful media and AI literacy material — including videos from the popular news creator Dave Jorgenson, co-founder of Local News International and former Washington Post “TikTok guy.” 

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