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WAN-IFRA is now assuring that young readership development is considered at both its highest-level events and in new regional arenas
For the first time since they were established in 1998, the World Young Reader Prizes will be presented at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum. That presentation will be one of the first activities during these events, coinciding with the Annual Young Reader Round Table on 12 October. (For more about the Congress and Forum, which run from 12 to 15 October, click HERE.)
For 2011, these events replace a World Young Reader Conference.
Further, after a highly successful regional event in India early in 2011, WAN-IFRA will do a full-scale Young Reader Summit for all of Asia. That is tentatively set for July 2012 in Bangkok. "I'm delighted that our merger has opened up these new opportunities," said Dr. Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA executive director of young readership development base in Paris. "I am persuaded that, for this year, especially, it made sense to put all our emphasis into folding young readership into the Congress and Forum, and into the IFRA Expo, where there will be a special Young Reader Advice Booth, instead of also doing separate global young reader conference." For more details, contact Dr. Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA executive director for young readership development.
TEACHING MEDIA LITERACY
Internet in the Family Guide V 2.0 is now available for newspapers to use  Newspapers are invited to us WAN-IFRA's free materials to create Internet in the Family V 2.0: A guide to helping children when they go online.
The guide offers advice to parents for creating a family code of conduct and about how to help children learn to search the Internet, how to determine the credibility of information, why students shouldn't 'copy and paste' Internet material into their own schoolwork, how to avoid the dangers posed by undesirable sites offering pornography and worse, and how to conduct themselves in contact with others online.
This new version adds sections on social networks, cyberbullying and newspaper online news, plus, with the cooperation of Microsoft, 20 "BE A SH@RK ON THE INTERNET" tips in short, Twitter-style that newspapers can use for a youth sticker contest. The author, Roxana Morduchowicz of the Argentine Education Ministry, offers tips about the use of the guide and for finding partners to help assure wide distribution. DETAILS ARE HERE.
TEACHING FREEDOM
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Some gifts we like...
Here are some gift ideas for newspaper people who care about the young, about reading and about education. Click HERE to tell us about others.
 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 [100 photos of nature for press freedom] (RSF, 2009, Jean-François Julliard, paperback, under 10 Euros). This edition of the annual photo book by Reporters Without Boarders (RSF) focused on fabulous nature photos and a need to protect the environment. Details about this and other 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 from online booksellers.
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 from online booksellers.
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  A card game to learn about the news:
"It's News to ME Newsflash! is a card game that encourages discussion of current issues and contains definitions of the key newspaper terms in each question. The game requires only the cards and a current newspaper. Find out more HERE.
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| OUR AIM: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) helps newspapers engage the young to create a literate, civic-minded new generation of readers all over the world. Based in Paris and Darmstadt, WAN-IFRA represents 18 000 newspaper and 15 000 online sites.
WHAT WE DO: Click on the cover below to find out about some of our activities.
This e-publication is courtesy of
www.wobook.com
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.
Some other resources we like...
 The Bernard Van Leer Foundation has put together a list of several resources to help journalists do a better job when they report about children. You can find it HERE.
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