With journalism organizations struggling, a competition seeks to find and honor young people supporting local newsrooms in their area. Student journalists collaborate in a newsroom. (Illustration by News Decoder) Can youth doing journalism help save local news media? ...
The more complicated an issue is, the more you need to humanize it and make it comprehensible. That’s where the anecdote comes in. A guy tells a story about a porcupine to a friend. (Illustration by News Decoder) In News Decoder’s Top Tips, we share advice...
An audience will connect to a news story that is about something that concerns them even if they stumble on it long after it is published. A person holds a newspaper with a pine tree branch inside, symbolising “evergreen” content. (Illustration by News...
News reporters are needed more now than ever before. If you’ve got a lot of curiosity and a little determination you have what it takes. Young woman talks on a phone. (Credit: Eliza Alves) In News Decoder’s Top Tips, we share advice for young people from...
If democracy depends on the support of an informed public what does it mean when people distrust what they read and hear in the news? Democracy as a form of government relies on an informed public. The founders of democracy in the United States, which became a model...