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  • Kids Give Their Two Cents on the Newspaper

    Ever wonder what goes on inside the minds of the youngest newspaper readers? John Humbird Elementary School students in Cumberland, Md., can provide a glimpse. During the school's recent career day, students from grades three through five heard from Cumberland Times-News reporter Brigette Cosgrove...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 05-06-2009
  • NIE: Whatever Floats Your Boat

    Starting April 20, students in Daytona Beach, Fla., will set sail along the Intracoastal Waterway and the St. Johns River, visiting Jacksonville and some Florida islands along the way. The trip is part of "Houseboating Through History," a program set up by the NIE program at The News-Journal...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 04-16-2009
  • World Young Reader Contest Announced

    The World Association of Newspapers seeks entries for its World Young Reader Prize competition. The contest calls for newspapers to submit comprehensive PowerPoint presentations detailing youth readership projects produced within two years of the entry deadlines. There are six categories: editorial,...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 04-14-2009
  • New Foundation Research: Teens and Online News

    The NAA Foundation and the Media Management Center at Northwestern University teamed up in early 2009 to explore and put to the test better ways to match the online news preferences of young people. "Teens Know What They Want From Online News: Do You?" is the result. For this research study...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 04-06-2009
  • Students Talk Frankly About Newspapers

    The past couple of weeks have seen an array of youth opinion on the state of newspapers. High school and college students alike have voiced thoughts as well as solutions. Student journalist You Jung Kim wrote an op-ed piece for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Web site on Feb. 8 about what she thinks...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 02-24-2009
  • teens tell it like it is, part 3

    "My friends ... do not read newspapers because they do not think they are modern enough," Andre Haughton said in his opening remarks to the Foundation Board of Trustees. Ouch. However, the University of Florida student was quick to offer a solution: emerging technology. He showed YouTube clips...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 10-07-2008
  • teens tell it like it is, part 2

    In his portion of the teen fellow presentation to the Foundation Board of Trustees, Elliot Butay raved about a new Web service that he had just discovered: Ping.fm. Ping allows users to update their social networks all at once. For busy teens with pages on MySpace, Facebook, Xanga and the like, it's...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 10-03-2008
  • teens tell it like it is, part 1

    Last week, three of the Young Reader Conference teen fellows attended the fall meeting of the Foundation Board of Trustees to talk about their news and information preferences -- specifically, what they read online and what they think newspapers could do better to attract young people using Web sites...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 10-02-2008
  • Greetings!

    Hello, and welcome to NAA Community. NAA Community has all sorts of cool bells and whistles, but one of the ones we're most excited about is the NAA FOundation Blog. Here, you'll find up-to-date information about our latest programs and products for Newspapers In Education, youth content and...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 09-24-2008
  • Doing "TheMash" in Chicago

    From NAA's Online Publishing Update e-newsletter, Sept. 5: The Chicago Tribune's new high school weekly newspaper, TheMash, has launched. The newspaper has an agreement with Chicago Public Schools to distribute the newspaper to the school system's 100,000-plus high school students, MarketWatch...
    Posted to Foundation (Weblog) by Marina Hendricks on 09-05-2008
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