Youth engagement & news literacy
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Youth engagement & news literacy
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) helps newspapers, parents and teachers work together to engage the young to create a literate, civic-minded new generation of readers all over the world.
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2015-01-10 10:03The editor of three age-specific dailies for children, François Dufour, provides some advice that editors and publishers who want to help parents and teachers deal with explaining horrific events in the news. Read more ... -
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2014-06-30 14:01For the tenth year, French reporters and editors under age 25 gathered to do a 15-hour overnight marathon to celebrate and create journalism. Take a look at our video report to see how, and why, they do it. Read more ... -
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2013-12-06 10:46Winners of 2013 World Young Reader Prizes received their awards, told how they did it and then explored new horizons with the other participants at WAN-IFRA's Youth Engagement Summit in Warsaw, Poland. The latest issue of the WAN-IFRA magazine details some of the key basics that underpinned their success. Read more ... -
2013-02-18 08:55Helping children learn about news while using digital tablets is strengthening news[papers] in education programmes worldwide and has won the Dutch “News in Education” division of the national media association a top media literacy prize. Read more ... -
2012-11-18 15:28Botswana has become the latest African country to introduce News in Education (NIE), an international programme to increase children’s academic skills by using the newspaper as a teaching tool. Read more ...
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To help create a new generation of civic-minded, literate readers, news publishers must also assure that young people learn about the work and importance of professional journalism. Thanks to more than a decade of World Young Reader Prize entries, we have a wealth of examples of how to do just that.
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