With News Decoder, young people not only question what is going on around them, they discover they’ve got peers across the globe asking similar questions. A selection of News Decoder student story headlines and the questions they ask. (Illustration by News...
Over 10 years, News Decoder has told students that their voices are worthy of being heard. Our contests tell them this: Don’t fear the judgement of others. A panel of contest judges. (Illustration by News Decoder) In November 2019, a high school student at...
News Decoder gives young people the platform to tell the world what they see and hear around them. In the process, we all learn how much we have in common. Three teens in a high school. (Illustration by News Decoder) When I hear or see something I think is wrong I...
Podcasts have become an essential way to tell important stories, whether they are in French, Spanish, Swedish or Albanian. A European Union flag with a podcasting symbol in the center. (Illustration by News Decoder.) Podcasting has moved quickly from niche to...
Bring people who speak different languages and come from different cultures into the same project and things can get messy. But the results are worth it. People around a table offer ideas in different languages. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced...
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...
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...
News Decoder’s summer intern, Hannah Choo, believes that differences between cultures should be appreciated, not feared. News Decoder summer intern Hannah Choo. (Photo courtesy of Hannah Choo) At the age of 9, Hannah Choo found herself shuttled across the...
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...
As News Decoder celebrates its 10th birthday, the need for young people to appreciate different perspectives and be globally aware is more pressing than ever. A birthday cake with 10 candles. (Credit: kajakiki/Getty Images Signature) In June of 2015, we asked this...