• An array of partners

  We work with many partners to engage the young.

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• A world of strategies

  Latest efforts in young readership development by newspaper associations around the world. READ MORE
• News in education (NIE)
  

  Learn about introducing children to journalism and about how to use newspaper news on all platforms and in all kinds of classes.

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• 2012-11-27 15:18 - Students and the News: An Update

• 07 Oct 2013 - 09 Oct 2013
  World Publishing Expo 2013 (IFRA Expo & Conference)
  Berlin - Germany

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) helps newspapers, parents and teachers work together to engage the young to create a literate, civic-minded new generation of readers all over the world.

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• Teaching freedom - the new film

  Teaching freedom - the new film

  

  Send us your ideas for classroom activities based our new press freedom film. 

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• 2000 students learn by doing journalistic interviews of a hero

  2000 students learn by doing journalistic interviews of a hero

  

  The 2012 My Dream Interview Festival finishes with WAN-IFRA awarding top prizes for school teams from Bolivia, Brazil, Spain and Argentina.

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• New free editorial resource

  New free editorial resource

  

  We give you text and art to make an "Internet in the Family" guide, plus ideas for digital tie-ins and sponsorship.

  Internet in the family

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  Teach freedom with film
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  My Dream Interview
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  Family Internet Guide

• Botswana teachers learn how to use newspapers in class, thanks to competing newspapers
  2012-11-18 15:28
  Botswana has become the latest African country to introduce News in Education (NIE), an international programme to increase children’s academic skills by using the newspaper as a teaching tool. Read more ...
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  My Dream Interview - A Global Youth Reporter Festival of Success Stories - The 2012 Edition
  2012-08-02 11:45

  In all, more than 2000 students worldwide participated in this first edition of the festival, working with newspapers in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. WAN-IFRA provided a teacher’s guide for helping students learn how to do interviews. For 2013, we seek some partners to help continue and expand the adventure.

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  I-Next of India takes top World Young Reader Prize for 2012
  2012-05-28 13:04
  I-Next of India has been designated the 2012 World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year in the annual Young Reader Prize competition from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), which awarded 21 prizes to newspapers and a newspaper printing plant from 13 countries that have found innovative ways to attract young people to the news. Read more ...
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  Dutch association’s Digital News Collage wins media literacy prize
  2012-05-09 08:55
  Helping children learn about news while using digital tablets has won the Dutch “News in Education” division of the national media association a top media literacy prize. Read more ...
• Be careful, and authentic, when approaching the young on social media
  2012-03-06 16:59

  Hannah Vinter, WAN-IFRA’s Paris-based social media specialist, has provided some examples of what newspapers could do – and certainly should not do – when attempting to engage the young through social media.
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  Jordan teachers compare notes, launch new NIE media literacy guide
  2011-11-04 14:11
  Jordanian teachers have produced a new guide to help their counterparts all over the region use newspapers as a tool for media literacy as well as a supplemental NIE (newspapers in education) classroom text for many other subjects. Read more ...
• New emphasis on WAN-IFRA young reader events
  2011-09-05 17:01
  WAN-IFRA is putting an increased emphasis on assuring that young readership development is considered at both its highest level events and in new regional arenas. Read more ...