What’s the secret to good writing? It’s a process that can push authors outside their comfort zones as they challenge their assumptions. In her award-winning story, Claire Wang looked dispassionately at three countries as they struggled with COVID-19....
News Decoder is expanding its program in Africa, Europe and the United States, and now has a footprint in 12 countries on five continents. News Decoder is delighted to announce that three more schools have joined its global network, expanding our footprint in Africa,...
Want to ensure the impact of COVID-19 on the environment slows climate change? Then be sure to vote, a top environmentalist tells a News Decoder webinar. Tom Burke (upper left) leads webinar on COVID-19 and climate change. What can young people do to ensure that...
They have helped shape News Decoder from the start. Meet our far-flung interns. They have decoded Brexit, rebuilt New Decoder’s website and dug into the Paris metro system. From our launch five years ago, interns have shaped New Decoder by helping us reach young...
Students tackled topics from homelessness to hip hop. Entries on COVID-19 and the environment copped the prizes in our storytelling contest. Charles Gorrivan of the Friends Seminary school in New York and Claire Wang of School Year Abroad France have won first prize...
People should not expect a quick end to the COVID-19 pandemic, which will likely last months, health journalist Maggie Fox tells a News Decoder town hall. Maggie Fox addresses News Decoder’s town hall on COVID-19, 31 March 2020 The coronavirus disease will take months...
U.S. school Friends Seminary wins this month’s Decoder in the Spotlight award for engaging through a webinar, article, quiz and class. A global webinar featuring students discussing homelessness, gender violence and climate change activism. An article exploring...
The new course tackles issues inherent to our digital age: How to be media literate and cope with a tsunami of information, much of it misleading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JjJOVxDU7g News-Decoder has released a new online course on Media Literacy to help young...
We published more stories in 2019 and were read in nearly 200 countries and territories. Readers flocked to articles about Africa, written by students. Biafran army volunteers train with rifle-sized sticks, Owerri, Biafra, 1 August 1968. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf)...
Claire Wang and Christine Fernando win first prize in News-Decoder’s Storytelling Contest with articles on French protests and U.S. immigration. story telling contest U5 Natural disaster at feild storytelling contest storytelling contest bullet storytelling...