For the 14th News Decoder Storytelling Competition, the winning stories tackled human trafficking, river conservation and climate change. In its first year of working with News Decoder, the Tatnall School in the U.S. state of Delaware took both first and second prizes...
Correspondent Susan Ruel sat down with student Goldie Zarabi of The Hewitt School in New York to talk journalism, objectivity and tough assignments. This feature is part of News Decoder’s Parallel (By)Lines series, where we bring a student and correspondent...
Introducing Sabine Bērziņa, News Decoder’s latest hire, to help lead our Mobile Stories project to teach media literacy through the practice of news gathering. Sabīne Bērziņa, News Decoder’s User Experience Manager. One way to get students to become media...
We had four students ask questions of three journalists in a live webinar to examine the state of journalism. Together they peered into the future. A robotic sports reporter files copy for the New York Times in the year 2035. Photo illustration by News Decoder....
First impressions are important. But with writing, the second draft is better. It helps to have an editor but sometimes you need to take on that role yourself. An editor has tightened up Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be” monologue. Illustration by...