by Marcy Burstiner | 4 Jul 2025 | Education, News Decoder Updates
Working with schools, News Decoder has helped teens see coherence out of the chaos of their times. A globe goes from fuzzy to clear. (Illustration by News Decoder) To understand the chaos that is the world today it helps to look back a decade. This past year, world...
by Marcy Burstiner | 27 Jun 2025 | Journalism, Media Literacy, News Decoder Tips
We live in an age of disinformation. But most journalists try hard to report the truth without being sneaky or causing harm in the process. They follow a code. A reporter is handed a classified file in a parking garage. (Illustration by News Decoder) In News...
by Marcy Burstiner | 20 Jun 2025 | Journalism, Media Literacy, News Decoder Tips
Everyone makes mistakes. To be credible you have to fess up when you get things wrong. Doing so doesn’t make you look bad. It shows you care about the truth. Two photos of birds. The left one is a curlew sandpiper and is covered by a big red X. The other is a...
by Marcy Burstiner | 13 Jun 2025 | History, Journalism, News Decoder Tips
Things don’t happen in a vacuum. If we understand how we got here, we might see ways out of the mess we’re in. A little history adds a whole lot of context. A historian examines old documents. (Illustration by News Decoder) In News Decoder’s Top...
by Marcy Burstiner | 4 Jun 2025 | News Decoder Updates
As News Decoder celebrates its 10th birthday, the need for young people to appreciate different perspectives and be globally aware is more pressing than ever. A birthday cake with 10 candles. (Credit: kajakiki/Getty Images Signature) In June of 2015, we asked this...