Relentlessly bad news makes people anxious and depressed. But there is good news to tell, if you make an effort to find it. Real examples of good news headlines on an imagined Google news feed. (llustration by News Decoder) In News Decoder’s Top Tips, we share...
Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and Beyoncé all endorsed the losing side in the U.S. election. Was their power to push followers to vote overblown? Musical artist Beyoncé, right, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, embrace on stage during a...
Photojournalists tell stories through images. To do that they have to get into the thick of it. A man is arrested during the protests against the government of President Dina Boluarte in Lima, Peru on 4 February 2023. Credit: Alfonso Silva-Santisteban. This article...
Telling stories through photos doesn’t require an expensive camera and decades of experience. Students can be photojournalists too — so long as they’re prepared and know what makes an effective photo. In this piece, correspondent Norma Hilton covers tips for capturing news with a camera, while staying safe.
Exercise: Read the article with your class, then have students compile a list of photojournalism tips from the text. With these tips in mind, students will then go out into the local community to take photos of a newsworthy event (e.g. a student rally, school football game, mayoral debate, city council meeting, etc.). Can students capture an effective photo that tells a story? As an extension of this exercise, students can put together a photo essay and pitch their story to us for a chance to be published on our global news site.
We grab for news when events turn tragic and frightening. But we don’t think about the journalists who stayed put amid the mayhem to bring us that news. A camera catches the pepper spraying by police of a journalist covering protests in Hong Kong in 2014....
Six years after Rohingya fled genocide in Myanmar, a million are still living in a state of legal limbo in Bangladesh. The world seems not to care. Rohingya camps in Bangladesh. Photo by Norma Hilton. This article was produced exclusively for News Decoder’s global...