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How small steps can give big results in engaging the young -- for both their benefit and yours The upcoming World Young Reader Conference (27-30 September in Prague) will offer an unprecedented array of practical strategies to connect to the young in new ways that help your newspaper and also those young readers. We have made it a point to concentrate on cost-effective actions that can yield results in a wide array of settings.
So, if you care about the young and want to find out how to help your newspaper be smarter about building their loyalty, especially in these difficult times, click HERE. The conference will also feature workshops, study visits and individual coaching. New youth journalism camp set for August
English-speaking young people from around the world can attend the innovative new "Junioroom" summer journalism camp organized by the International Media Training Centre based in Prague. The project is affiliated with the young readership development work of the World Association of Newspapers as well as WAN's World Editors Forum. Two week-long sessions in Prague for 10- to 16-year-olds will offer young people the chance to learn journalism in a converged setting, creating news for print, video and audio broadcast in a state-of-the-art integrated newsroom. Sessions, which will be held in English, run from 8 to 15 and 15 to 20 August. The 400 Euro fee covers everything but transport to and from Prague. Details HERE.
Get a preview of a new serialized story we will offer -- for free -- to the world's newspapersNewspapers can celebrate International Literacy Day (8 September) by running an eight-part serial story that offers lots of potential for connecting to parents and teachers and for promotion partners. The story was donated by Cathy Sewell of The Curriculum Closet Productions, Inc., who wrote the "Frannie Learns a Lesson" series. Details are HERE. | 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.
Jordan NIE moves ahead 50 more teachers learned how to use newspapers in their classrooms during two workshops in Amman. Details HERE. Nigeria gets a first taste of NIE Children 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
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NOW is the time to remember the young. Make new connections and new strategies at the 8th World Young Reader Conference.

Send a child or teen-ager to camp to learn to do news in lots of ways ! Download the invitation HERE.
 Download easy-to-publish materials to teach the young about press freedom.
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

CELEBRATING READING Click on the image of Garfield to take a look at some of the cartoons that artists worldwide donated for newspapers to run on International Literacy Day. Main partners were Cartoon Arts International, Universal Press Syndicate, The National Cartoonists Society (USA), along with newspapers and newspaper associations all over the world. (2-minute video).

NIE in Colombia: The Film 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.
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