Dean Miller

I help teach 1,300 undergraduates per year to think critically about news, assessing evidence, sources and context in a methodical way that helps them find reliable information for their civic life.

That teaching practice is the basis for my work at the Center, spreading the course and its lessons globally. The Stony Brook Model is used at more than 50 campuses in the U.S. and new partnerships are underway in Beijing, Hong Kong, Saigon, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Kuwait City, Thimphu (Bhutan) and Toowoomba (Australia).

I worked as a community newspaper editor for 14 years before I was hired to run the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University on Long Island, about an hour east of Manhattan. Before I was an editor, I was a reporter for 10 years in the Northern Rockies and was editor, co-writer and lead researcher on non-fiction books.