Discussion of skills (reporting, writing, editing, graphics design, photojournalism,, web journalism, opinion writing and broadcasting), issues (news, practices, law, history, ethics), industry (newspapers, magazines, radio and television, news web sites), and with grammar exercises for students
BBC Kids News
Kids news from the British Broadcasting Company out of the United Kingdom, providing young readers with a world view of the news
CBC 4 Kids
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's web site for kids with news, sports, homework help and discussion area, primarily for Canadian kids but includes a Latin news section
Kids News Room
Kid Style News for Kid Style People, a twice-monthly newsmagazine featuring news, games, information and submitted articles from kids and schools from around the United States, and offers student, parent, and teacher educational resources
Paper Lake Times
Students learn journalism through articles and quizzes, write their own stories and interview sources, and receive advice from working journalists.
Silver Chips Online
Online version of award winning student newspaper of Montgomery Blair High School's (www.mbhs.edu), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; a forum for community expression run entirely by students and working closely with print counterpart
The Write Site
An interactive language arts and journalism project for middle schools developed by ThinkTVNetwork, Dayton, Ohio (An OET/SchoolNet Project), teaching students how to do research and discover their own writing style
Time for Kids
Time Magazine’s new site for kids, containing national news, world news and the latest news from talented kids of the entertainment world
YouthInkIt
YouthInk Publications Society is non-profit charitable organization dedicated to promoting literacy in Youth through journalism, communication, publishing and special projects; Teaches young people how to do interviews, write copy, and use HTML to publish on the web; Explores current environmental and social issues. Helps students get their writings published. Requires free registration.
Writing for the Web, from Sun Microsystems
Written by Jakob Nielsen, distinguished engineer; PJ Schemenaur, technical editor; and Jonathan Fox, editor-in-chief, www.sun.com on how users read on the Web and how authors should write.
Topics include Difference Between Paper and Online Presentation; Working With a Designer:; Scannability; Navigation; Writing to Be Read: Headlines and subheads; lists, captions, and hyperlinks; Writing to Be Found; Terms to Avoid; Editorial Review of Web Pages:; Web Facts
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