by News Decoder | 4 Jul 2024 | Journalism, Media Literacy, News Decoder Updates
Over five days, young people working with News Decoder mastered the art of interviewing and learned what it takes to turn audio into a podcast. Two teens create cover artwork for their podcasts at a News Decoder camp on audio storytelling at the American School of...
by News Decoder | 12 Jun 2024 | Journalism, Media Literacy, News Decoder Updates
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...
by Kaja Andrić | 10 Jun 2024 | Education, Journalism, News Decoder Updates
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...
by Marcy Burstiner | 23 May 2024 | Culture, Educators' Catalog, History, Media Literacy
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?
by Rafiullah Nikzad | 1 May 2024 | Afghanistan, Asia, Decoder Replay, Human Rights, Journalism
May 3 will mark World Press Freedom Day, reminding us that despite the important work journalists do, in many places it is difficult for them to do that job. Afghan cameramen cover a protest against U.S. President Joe Biden in Kabul, Afghanistan, 15 February 2022. (AP...