August 12 marks International Youth Day. Around the world young people are angry and demand to be heard. When will the world listen? Students shout during a demonstration, 9 March 2023 in Paris. Young people in France protested against the government’s push to...
For 10 years News Decoder has engaged teens through experiential learning and connecting them with people who have been eyewitnesses to world events. Students from schools in two different countries share their thoughts on the U.S. presidency and the rise of white...
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...
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...
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...