Young learners need to cultivate new democratic skills and dispositions to fully participate in civic dialogues, but many teachers have yet to integrate suitable experiences into their curricula. These new media skills apply established aspects of citizenship like deliberation, pluralism, and participation towards engagement with various forms of media. More so, these skills overlap and build upon skills embedded throughout the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (NCSS) standards and the C3 Framework for elementary students like detecting bias, evaluating sources and using evidence, and communicating conclusions and taking informed action. This article proposes a framework for learning about current events and media through a four-part process: (1) democratic decision-making; (2) media appraisal; (3) summarizing and synthesizing a range of media stories; and (4) remixing media coverage into a new story. Teachers can utilize this flexible framework to cultivate the democratic media skills of transmedia judgment and remixing in varied contexts and time. This approach aligns closely with the four dimensions of the inquiry arc of the C3 Framework, but gives attention to appraising various forms of media.