by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent | 27 May 2020 | Environment, Health and Wellness, News Decoder Updates
Want to ensure the impact of COVID-19 on the environment slows climate change? Then be sure to vote, a top environmentalist tells a News Decoder webinar. Tom Burke (upper left) leads webinar on COVID-19 and climate change. What can young people do to ensure that...
by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent | 25 May 2020 | News Decoder Updates
They have helped shape News Decoder from the start. Meet our far-flung interns. They have decoded Brexit, rebuilt New Decoder’s website and dug into the Paris metro system. From our launch five years ago, interns have shaped New Decoder by helping us reach young...
by Angela Gu | 13 May 2020 | Chadwick School, Contests, Friends Seminary, News Decoder Updates, School Year Abroad, Thacher School, Youth Voices
Students tackled topics from homelessness to hip hop. Entries on COVID-19 and the environment copped the prizes in our storytelling contest. Charles Gorrivan of the Friends Seminary school in New York and Claire Wang of School Year Abroad France have won first prize...
by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent | 8 Apr 2020 | Health and Wellness, News Decoder Updates
People should not expect a quick end to the COVID-19 pandemic, which will likely last months, health journalist Maggie Fox tells a News Decoder town hall. Maggie Fox addresses News Decoder’s town hall on COVID-19, 31 March 2020 The coronavirus disease will take months...
by Lauren Heuser | 28 Feb 2020 | Friends Seminary, News Decoder Updates, Students in the Spotlight
U.S. school Friends Seminary wins this month’s Decoder in the Spotlight award for engaging through a webinar, article, quiz and class. A global webinar featuring students discussing homelessness, gender violence and climate change activism. An article exploring...
by Savannah Jenkins | 24 Jan 2020 | News Decoder Updates
The new course tackles issues inherent to our digital age: How to be media literate and cope with a tsunami of information, much of it misleading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JjJOVxDU7g News-Decoder has released a new online course on Media Literacy to help young...
by Nelson Graves | 31 Dec 2019 | African Leadership Academy, Indiana University, Miss Porter's School, News Decoder Updates
We published more stories in 2019 and were read in nearly 200 countries and territories. Readers flocked to articles about Africa, written by students. Biafran army volunteers train with rifle-sized sticks, Owerri, Biafra, 1 August 1968. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf)...
by Savannah Jenkins | 18 Dec 2019 | Contests, Indiana University, News Decoder Updates, School Year Abroad, Thacher School
Claire Wang and Christine Fernando win first prize in News-Decoder’s Storytelling Contest with articles on French protests and U.S. immigration. story telling contest U5 Natural disaster at feild storytelling contest storytelling contest bullet storytelling...
by Lauren Heuser | 11 Dec 2019 | News Decoder Updates
U.S. EdTech leader Newsela engages with millions of students and works with top global media brands. It’s News Decoder’s newest content partner. Grade-schools students in Hamburg, Germany, 18 March 2019 (Photo by: Daniel Reinhardt/picture-alliance/dpa/AP...
by Savannah Jenkins | 20 Nov 2019 | Human Rights, News Decoder Updates
In a vote of confidence for News-Decoder’s mission, a UK firm is featuring by our students and correspondents in books on big issues for youth. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, center, looks behind as Israeli Prime Yitzhak Rabin speaks...