Hi Jayne, This handbook sounds like a great resource for the young journalists that are being trained around the world through a new program (to be announced shortly) we're doing with the Daniel Pearl Foundation. The PEARL World Youth News is a news service by and for young people 14-19 and the articles they write, peer edit and then publish on the web are available for downloading and reprinting by student newspapers anywhere in the world.
But the key component is building local journalism skills and capacity through the PEARL Certification course that young people anywhere in the world can take to become certified reporters. The course takes them through the various components of journalism and article writing and editing. It was designed in collaboration with the New York Times and Columbia University's School of Journalism. The writing assignments are mentored by Columbia and NYU graduate students. After certification, they receive formal recognition of the accomplishment and they submit articles to editorial schools responsible for news, features, entertainment, music/performing arts and managing. The initial youth editorial teams in these four areas are at schools in Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon, Uzbekistan and USA. In each country professional journalists visited these schools and spent 2 days with the students to train them in journalism editing. Thus far, students in 45 countries have registered to take or have completed the certification course. Although not yet completed, you can take a peek at the website to be launched next 2 weeks: http://pearl.iearn.org/pearlnews We will alert these student reporters to the handbook. Ed -- Ed Gragert, iEARN-USA Check out our new website: www.us.iearn.org Youth Making a Difference _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
