1. Do a “Liberty. Picture it!” mobile phone photojournalism contest or project.
We are providing material and advice about how to do a contest or workshop that focuses on photojournalism, especially using a mobile phone. Our World Young Reader Network will guide the effort . Details here. Join the network here.
2. Print some exercises for teachers.
We have several stand-alone exercises that can help teach the young about the importance and fragility of press freedom, even within one class period. These can be handouts you give out during a class visit or treated as advertisements within your paper. You can choose from a full-page set of multiple exercises or separate sheets encouraging students to design a front page, plan a campaign or explore the notion of press freedom in film. ENGLISH FRANÇAIS ESPAÑOL
3. Do a design-an-advertisement contest or project.
You can download our brief for students to make a public service advertisement for press freedom day, plus background about how to make an advertisement and, especially, a public service advertisement. Details here
4. Do a regional or national “School Newspaper Prize for Press Freedom” contest.
Honor a student team and adviser make the best use of the WAN-IFRA 3 May Press Freedom Day materials in a school newspaper to effectively teach fellow students about the importance and fragility of press freedom. Details here
For more about how to develop young readership:
http://www.wan-ifra.org/microsites/young-readers