Germany conference to focus on the young You missed the WAN-IFRA World Young Reader Conference? You have a second chance to hear some of the star speakers from that event and about many more excellent strategies at Germany's fifth conference on Children, Youth and Newspapers set for 3 March 2010 in Berlin, organized by BDZV, the German publishers association. Working languages will be German and English. Participants who sign up by 4 February get a reduced fee. You can find out more from Anja Pasquay at BDZV.
With our new free materials, your newspaper can help families guide children when they go online We are offering materials in three languages for a guide that newspapers worldwide can publish to help their readers to help and protect children when they use the Internet. Teachers and parents will appreciate this media literacy tool, one that can also attract new kinds of partners for the newspaper itself. You can find out more and download the art and text here: ENGLISH, FRANÇAIS & ESPAÑOL
Coming soon: DEUTSCH
Newspapers, youth and the environment How newspapers are engaging the young people to help save the environment. Details HERE.
Your long-lasting great youth programme can win a World Young Reader Prize in 2010. A special category will honor "Enduring Excellence" in the 2010 World Young Reader Prize competition. In addition to the prizes that go to new ideas, a prize will go to a newspaper project begun more than two years ago that continues to help both the young and the newspaper itself. In 2009, Zero Hora of Brazil and Express & Echo of the United Kingdom were named World Young Reader Newspapers of the Year for two vital kinds of excellence. Other World Young Reader Prize awards went to newspapers in Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. For details and how to enter in 2010, click HERE. India event focused on sports & parents --- and offered free young readership advice Participants at the WAN-IFRA Congress and Forum (Hyderabad, India, 30 Nov. to 4 Dec.) made use of a team of free young readership development advisors at a special booth for individual consultations during the event. The team members were also among the speakers at the Annual Young Reader Round Table on event's first day, 30 November. At that session, speakers explored how to better engage parents, how to make new use of sport and how to start an online youth network and other new kinds of projects on a very small budget. You can explore an overview of the event, including some videos, by examining the collage below.
The WAN-IFRA Young Readership Development Project helped bring 14 journalism students from Western Kentucky University (USA) to do blogs, videos and photographs. The full coverage is HERE and below are some highlights.
* Engaging the young with sport. Earlier, the 8th World Young Reader Conference in Prague offered an unprecedented array of practical strategies to connect to the young in new ways that help newspapers and also those young readers. Couldn't go? Read the summaries HERE.
DOSSIER: TEACHING FREEDOM
Your young readers can take a picture and use Facebook to join a youth press freedom campaign
With the help of your front page, your young readers can join our global effort on Facebook to free a Chinese journalist. Details HERE.
New ready-to-use materials teach the young about press freedom
We are offering stand-alone exercises to help teachers and parents show young people how important, and fragile, press freedom and freedom of expression really are. Details HERE.
Teachers learn, then teach in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka took the next steps in Spetember toward a national newspapers in education (NIE) programme with a workshop for 40 teachers organized by the country's leading newspapers, Upali Newspapers Limited and Wijeya Newspaper Limited, the National Institute of Education Sri Lanka and the Education Ministry. The teachers then wen on the road to try their new skills at two schools. Details HERE.
Jordan NIE moves ahead
Fifty more teachers learned how to use newspapers in their classrooms during two workshops in Amman. Details HERE.
Nigeria gets a first taste of NIEChildren attending the First Africa Media Literacy Conference competed in a "newspaper race" that taught some basics about the newspaper itself. Read the details HERE [Photo BY Dele Damisa]
NIE & Democracy in Asia Newspaper executives from Asia and the Pacific region meeting in Thailand have developed a series of nine recommendations for using newspapers as a tool for education, to promote citizenship and to build democracy. Read the details HERE
YOUNG READER NEWS FROM WAN-IFRA
A report for Morgan Stanley about youth media habits by intern Matthew Robinson, 15, makes headlines. Veteran researcher Robert Barnard, author of WAN's Youth Media DNA studies likes the result.
What we've been doing Find out more about WAN's young readership development work in our e-report by clicking on the cover below: This e-publication is courtesy of www.wobook.com
Internet in the Family Guide Click HERE to learn about Internet in the Family, a guide offering advice to parents on how to help children search the Internet safely.
Teach press freedom! Download easy-to-publish materials to teach the young about press freedom.
Some gifts we like... Here are some gift suggestions for newspaper people who care about the young, about reading and about education. A blackboard The Canadian branch of CARE will put a new blackboard in a school in Zambia or Malawi for your CAN$ 21 donation, which can be done in honor of a friend. Details HERE.
A nature book 100 Photos de la nature pour la liberté de la presse (RSF, 2009, Jean-François Julliard, paperback, under 10 Euros). The latest in photo books by Reporters Without Boarders (RSF) focuses on fabulous nature photos and a need to protect the environment. Details about this and previous RSF photo books at www.rsf.org. Available online.
A storybook with a newspaper theme:
In French: Le loup est revenu (multiple publishers, 1996, Geoffroy de Pennart, paperback, under 10 Euros) by - early primary - "The Wolf Is Back" the headline reads, but all ends well. Available online.
In French and Spanish: Le/El Daily Star (multiple publishers, first edition in1984, Maurice Morris, Jean Léturgie, Xavier Fauche, primary through university,) In this comic book, the cowboy Lucky Luke meets up with an itinerant newspaper publisher who gets into all kinds of trouble as he crosses the West. Can be read for fun and for talking about real issues in journalism and press freedom. Available online (Spanish version hard to find).
In Spanish: El magico mundo de los periodicos (Peque Press, 2007, Maria Oset, hardback, primary level), A child tries to figure out what a newspaper is like. The luscious art will charm even non-Spanish speakers. Available via the author, Maria Oset at maria.oset@mail.egn.es
Click HERE to tell us about others, especially what we've missed in English
Some videos we like...
Newspapers in cartoons Click on the image of Garfield (above) to take a look at some of the donations from artists worldwide for use on International Litearcy Day (2-minute video).
NIE in Colombia Click on the image of to learn how teachers and students all over Colombia feel about using newspapers in the classroom. The six-minute film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
when they use the Internet. Teachers and parents will appreciate this media literacy tool, one that can also attract new kinds of partners for the newspaper itself. You can find out more and download the art and text here: 
A special category will honor "Enduring Excellence" in the 2010 World Young Reader Prize competition. In addition to the prizes that go to new ideas, a prize will go to a newspaper project begun more than two years ago that continues to help both the young and the newspaper itself. In 2009, Zero Hora of Brazil and Express & Echo of the United Kingdom were named World Young Reader Newspapers of the Year for two vital kinds of excellence. Other World Young Reader Prize awards went to newspapers in Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. For details and how to enter in 2010, click 
DOSSIER: TEACHING FREEDOM
A blackboard
A nature book
