STONY BROOK, N.Y., October 23, 2006?Stony Brook University and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will pioneer the nation’s first university-wide course in News Literacy designed to teach students how to judge the reliability and credibility of news. The Knight Foundation has awarded a $1.7 million grant to Stony Brook for the project, in which the university is committed to teaching the newly-developed course to more than 10,000 students over four years.