S  tony Brook University, birthplace of the News Literacy movement, has taught 10,000 undergraduates a critical thinking course that uses each day's news as the main text. NYCB Foundation funds an essay contest in which each semester's winning student receives the equivalent of a semester's in-state tuition. The bedrock principle is that reliable information is found where a news consumer can see the report has been through a process of Verification by a non-involved (Independent) producer who is Accountable for the truth of the report: students are pushed to always apply the mnemonic "V.I.A."