Media Literate Media Awards
The NAMLE Media Literate Media Awards recognize people, programs, initiatives, or organizations in mainstream media that:
- Have raised the visibility of media literacy education or media literacy.
- Have helped citizens better understand media literacy education or media literacy.
- Have provided significant, outstanding resources that enhance the ability of educators to practice the kind of inquiry-based media literacy education described in NAMLE’s Core Principles of Media Literacy Education.
Nominations
Any NAMLE member is eligible to make a nomination for the award, and a committee of board and non-board members will be assembled each year to select the winners. Make a nomination or volunteer to be on the awards selection committee. Nominations should include the following information:
- Nominator’s full contact information, including phone number
- Name and as much contact information as possible for the nominee (person, program, organization or initiative)
- A paragraph in support of the nomination, including how the nominee meets one or more of the award criteria listed above
Awards History
NAMLE’s Media Literate Media Awards started out as the Partnership for Media Education’s (PME) Outstanding Achievement Awards. First presented at Summit 2000: Children Youth and Media – Beyond the Millennium in Toronto, Canada, the purpose of the Awards was to encourage mainstream media to incorporate media literacy into their work by publicly acknowledging those who do so.
