by Marcy Burstiner | 16 Apr 2025 | Education, Journalism, News Decoder Updates
With journalism organizations struggling, a competition seeks to find and honor young people supporting local newsrooms in their area. Student journalists collaborate in a newsroom. (Illustration by News Decoder) Can youth doing journalism help save local news media? ...
by Charles Norris | 14 Apr 2025 | Contest winners, Culture, Education, Student Posts, Tatnall School, Technology, Youth Voices
Across the world, schools are banning phones. But parents want to keep connected to their kids and students and some teachers find they can enhance learning. Two teens look at a phone in a classroom. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article, by high school...
by News Decoder | 10 Apr 2025 | Education, Journalism, Media Literacy, News Decoder Updates
By producing news stories and other content, young people master the gathering, assessing and sharing of factual and verifiable information. A student reads articles on the Mobile Stories site. (Illustration by News Decoder) Gathering and assessing the quality of...
by Carlos Rubio | 21 Mar 2025 | Education, Journalism, Media Literacy
The more confusing the media messages we get, the more we rely on educated journalists to sift through the noise and give us the context we need. News reporters ask questions of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt during a press briefing at the White House in...
by Norma Hilton | 20 Mar 2025 | Culture, Education, Environment, Media Literacy
Sometimes, made-up characters can get through to people more effectively than real-life scientists and educators. Hiding behind a shelf of books, Dr. Seuss’ Lorax tells the cat from the animated movie “Flow” that he speaks for the trees....