Extra Bladet: Never forget about young readers

Young readers are now the real future of newspapers and online operations of news publishers. Louise Abildgaard Grøn, Project Manager of Educational Relations in Danish „Ekstra Bladet” knows a lot about it, as she leads the project called Redaktionen – an internet-based editorial platform where schools produce their own newspaper. Next week, she will be telling the participants of INMA Outlook 2010 conference, about how to connect to the future readers. Today, she answers few questions exclusively for Forum4Editors. Enjoy the read! Read more

Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza awarded by WAN

The World Association of Newspapers announced Poland’s daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, the Newspaper of the Year in the 2008 World Young Reader Prize. Read more

How Ouest-France attracts young readers

”When young people get a newspaper at school and they begin to read it, they find a lot of content interesting to them,” believes Herve Barbot, Marketing Research & Development Manager at Ouest-France. Read more

How we got 141,665 photos from readers

How many photo reporters can you assign to make a portrait of your country? 1? 2? 5? 10? 50? What about 25 thousand? It is possible, we have done it, writes Grzegorz Piechota of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza. Read more

What television and the Internet is doing to our kids?

Do you try to catch young readers and convince them to read a newspaper? Bad news from scientists: the Digital Age can stupefy the youngsters and jeopardize our future. Read more

Young readers, elections and the internet

Young people often click away from election news online because they feel the sites bombard them with too much information and too many choices. Read more

Kids play when producing a real newspaper

Denmark’s Ekstra Bladet helps youngsters make their own newspapers with an online editorial system. It is the only offer of this kind in the world, writes Henrik Schou of the Danish daily. Read more

How to win young readers?

“We do not believe in stereotypes that today’s young people do not read and are not interested in the world. And we prove it,” Ewa Tomaszewicz of Gazeta Wyborcza tells the full story of the World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year. Read more

Polish Newspaper Wins World Young Reader Prize

The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza has won the annual World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year award, the World Association of Newspapers announced. Read more

Stickers against Chinese policy

This campaign was invented and run by readers themselves. They gave an idea to newspaper’s editors, sent content and created a community.

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