The Allen County Public Library of Fort Wayne, Indiana offers a daily Audio Reading Service Podcast, which is, "specifically designed for and directed to people who have visual, physical, learning, or language challenges to reading traditional printed materials." Here, visitors will find audio recordings of a number of popular news sources, ranging from The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, ...
From BBC Radio 4 comes More or Less - a broadcast that aims to offer a "statistical guide to the world and everything else." The show is hosted by Tim Harford and released twice a week. In each episode, Harford discusses the statistics quoted in recent news stories and new research. For example, one recent episode investigates a recent claim from Russia's health ministry that alcohol consumption...
Created in 1996, the Media Awareness Network (MNet) is a Canadian non-profit organization that works on the development of media literacy and digital literacy programs. The basic premise behind MNet is to equip adults with information and tools "to help young people understand how the media work, how the media may affect their lifestyle choices and the extent to which they, as consumers and...