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Jaci Clement
Jaci Clement is a media expert with more than 20 years experience in the communications industry. She is chief executive officer and executive director of the Fair Media Council, which advocates for quality news and works to create a media-savvy society in a media-driven world. FMC is headquartered on Long Island, New York. Clement writes weeklmedia commentaryananalysisand is regularly interviewed on issues affecting local news and the subsequent impact on the news consumer; frequently contributes opinion pieces on the topic to a variety of publications, and speaks around the country on the importance of being a media savvy consumer. She has created a media literacy program and brought it into the classroom, believing strongly that news literacy and literacy skills must develop simultaneously to enhance children's deductive reasoning and critical thinking abilities and, ultimately, to create a generation of world-class citizens. Her news experience began when she was in the fourth g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the List of islands by population, 18th-most populous in the world. The island begins at New York Harbor approximately east of Manhattan Island and extends eastward about into the Atlantic Ocean and 23 miles wide at its most distant points. The island comprises four List of counties in New York, counties: Kings and Queens counties (the New York City Borough (New York City), boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) and Nassau County, New York, Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County occupies the eastern two thirds of the island. More than half of New York City's residents (58.4%) lived on Long Island as of 2020, in Brooklyn and in Queens. Culturally, many people in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
