Our film explaining the importance and fragility of press freedom can be used in classrooms. We'd like to spread the word about specific activities that could go along with it. If you have another idea, can you send it to us and we'll add it to this page. Ideas should come to aralynn.mcmane@wan-ifra.org.

You can see and share the film here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsP3i5F_1A8&feature=player_embedded

Subtitling is available within youtube.

With thanks to Mair Perkins Animation & Illustration Ltd.

More activities HERE to help the young learn about the importance -- and fragile state -- of press freedom around the world. 

Click here for WAN-IFRA Press Freedom activityClick the image at left for complete information about WAN-IFRA's press freedom activities. The "Related Links" box at right, links to Cartoonists for Peace (a wonderful organization that groups cartoonists of all persuasions), two global organizations, RSF (Reporters without Borders) and Freedom House, that do excellent tracking of the press freedom situation around the world plus a provocative study about the relationship of national "happiness" to press freedom. 

SOME OF YOUR IDEAS & ACTIVITIES AROUND THE FILM:

Make a new scenario. This film is aimed at adults. Write a new scenario ( x minutes) for a press freedom presentation on You Tube target group: youngsters

Look in the newspapers for news and images that certainly will displease some people: What is that news? Why the displeasure, Who does want to know it because ................

Write down your definition of press freedom and ask 10 "friends" to comment on your definition. What do they say? Will you change your definition ( into....)?

Gerard van der Weijden, Belgium, inventor of WAN-IFRA's World Newspaper Reading Passport and young readership development consultant, g.vanderweijden@telenet.be