Seeing Bias in the News and Online

  • Author: Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 45 minutes
Being Conscious about Unconscious Bias micro course
Course overview
Learn to notice bias in news, social media and technology, and build a thoughtful habit before you believe, repeat or share what you see.
  • Video time: 3 minutes
  • Certificate of Completion included

What's included?

  • 5 Lessons
  • 1 Certificate of Completion
  • 1 Worksheet
  • 3 Videos
  • 2 PDF downloads

What you will learn

Explain how news and online content can shape the assumptions about people that we bring into workplace decisions and conversations.

A tool you can use this week

Source, Slant, Spread, an original Civility Experts tool of three questions for any news item or post: who made this and what do they gain (source), how is it framed and what is left out (slant), and why is it reaching me and what makes it travel (spread). The worksheet helps you apply it to a real situation this week.

Dr. Lew Bayer

CEO of Civility Experts Inc., author, and Canadian Civility Ambassador
ABOUT LEW
Dr. Lew Bayer is internationally recognized as the leading expert on civility at work. She is CEO of Civility Experts Inc., a multinational civility training group with more than 500 affiliates in 46 countries, and the author of 23 books, including the bestseller The 30% Solution and a new book on diplomacy due for release in January 2027. With some 30 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor, Lew and her team of social architects help organizations build better workplaces by building competency in civility. She serves as faculty at the Canadian Management Centre, is Director of the International Civility Trainers' Consortium, and is currently embracing her role as Canadian Civility Ambassador.
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