A global competition has found that collaborations between news organizations and young people can benefit both. A bank of press microphones including ones that say youth voice and teen press. (Illustration by News Decoder) Each year, Global Youth & News Media...
News Decoder encourages youth to ask big questions and seek out different perspectives. In a world where information is spoon-fed, that’s transcendent. A teen looks beyond a barrage of media. (Illustration by News Decoder) TikTok reels, attention grabbing...
When students return to university, it will be with the threat that masked agents can come and take them or their classmates away. What lessons will they learn? Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil poses for a portrait during an interview, 3 July 2025, in New York....
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...
You might picture stacks of dust-covered books. But nowadays knowledge comes in all kinds of forms — and libraries are adapting to meet that challenge. Jacky Salas Haro uses the anatomage table at the Cal Poly Humboldt Library’s Hall of Simulation during an...
Some 90 million students across the globe lose their access to education, not from snow or hurricanes, but from the political storms that rage around them. Sarah Qanan studies inside her family’s tent in the Gaza city of Khan Younis 28 June 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel...
As the U.S. government slashes funding for public media, a PBS youth journalism project is awarded an international prize for outstanding achievement. Students at the 2025 Summer Academy, a weeklong Student Reporting Labs journalism training event in Washington D.C....
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...
Every July 4 the United States celebrates its Declaration of Independence. But behind its “self-evident” truths was a load of hypocrisy. The U.S. Declaration of Independence. (Photo credit: jaflippo/Getty Images) Editor’s note: On 4 July, people in...
Around the world, data shows that girls do better in school when there are no boys in the class. Students hold up their hands in a class. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article, by high school student Bryce Cohen was produced out of News Decoder’s school...