One of News Decoder’s new board members has made it her mission to help young people navigate the media landscape to better understand the world they live in. Elis Estrada, new addition to the Nouvelles-Découvertes board. Elis Estrada grew up watching local...
News Decoder started with one journalist who sought to build global awareness in young people. Over the next nine years dozens of other journalists signed on. Meet some of News Decoder’s correspondents. When News Decoder got its start it was with the idea of...
News Decoder started as an idea: Informing youth about global events. It evolved into something much more. A collage that shows some of News Decoder’s accomplishments over the past nine years. (Illustration by News Decoder) Nelson Graves’ brain child was born in...
The new board president of News Decoder’s nonprofit wants to help students tell their stories and discover a wider world. Nouvelles-Découvertes Board President Christian Henry. Christian Henry has a portal in his office. To some, it’s a photo of a turquoise-water...
Historians dig up stories that document our past the way archeologists sift through relics. The more they learn the more we realize how much we don’t know. A stack of books in a bookstore that tell only one version of the world. (Illustration by News Decoder)...
Historians dig up stories that document our past the way archeologists sift through relics. The more they learn the more we realize how much we don’t know. News Decoder’s Editorial News Director Marcy Burstiner examines history and the versions of history that we’re told.
Exercise: Explore the idea of stories being told from different perspectives and of certain histories being silenced or underrepresented. Choose a current topic and have students look at it from different perspectives. What kinds of histories might be forged through telling the story in different ways?