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Summaries of presentations and other news from the 5th World Young Reader Conference appear below. Full Executive Summaries with more complete content, as well as all WAN publications on media management, strategy and other topics, are available to WAN members and subscribers to the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project.

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Mobile Telephones: They’re for the Kids
[22nd September 2003]
Those great new mobile telephone services? Thank your kids for them -- and pay attention, because those services being generated for the youth market have strong implications for the newspaper business. more

Great Ideas for Circulation, Revenue
[9th September 2003]
Great ideas for increasing circulation and generating new revenue were part of the final sessions of the World Young Reader conference. more

Newspapers Often Portray Children as Victims
[9th September 2003]
A new global study of newspaper coverage of children finds that nearly one-third of the articles about them concern children as victims. English Français

Latest research - and More
[9th September 2003]
Tuesday morning sessions focused on the latest young reader research, fundraising and a programme that attracts young people through role-playing. more

Quotes from the Conference
[8th September 2003]
Insights from newspaper executives and young reader experts from around the world. more

American Newspaper Awarded World Young Reader Prize
[8th September 2003]
WAN has awarded its World Young Reader Prize to the Daytona Beach News-Journal for a project that offered free home delivery of newspapers to nearly 1,500 lower-income students and provided curriculum support to encourage life-long readership. more

Lessons From the Workshops
[8th September 2003]
Delegates to the World Young Reader Conference participated in Newspapers in Education workshops Monday afternoon and discussed new ideas for NIE programmes. Here are some ideas from three diverse countries - the United States, Colombia and South Africa. more

Opening Session Summaries
[8th September 2003]
The power of mobile devices, the latest readership research and some successful newspaper editorial concepts for attracting young readers were examined in the opening sessions. more