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Record, Burlington County Times
Win Top NIE Honors in State
Congratulations to The Record and The Burlington
County Times for winning first-place awards in the 2007 Better
Newspaper Contest. The Record won in the category NIE
Programs/Educational Projects; the BCT won for NIE Programs/All
Promotions to Increase NIE Circulation.
Click here to retrieve a PDF of the winning entries in the
circulation contest.
E-editions of newspapers touted
as an alternate way to reach students
Newspaper in Education coordinators and
youth-page editors from New Jersey and Pennsylvania newspapers
met on February 7 to explore the future of newspapers
delivered to schools over the Web.
The program, which was co-sponsored by the New
Jersey Press Foundation and the Pennsylvania Newspaper
Association Foundation, was held at the Bucks County (Pa.)
Courier Times.
A report
on the program is posted on an inside page of this Web site.
Jim Abbott, vice president of Newspaper Association of America
Foundation, was the keynote speaker. NAA has published a report on the benefits of
Internet-delivered (e-edition) newspapers by Newspaper in Education programs.
For a summary and a link to the full NAA report,
click here.
Newspapers Must Engage Teens to Develop Lifelong
Readers
Editors of the state's youth/teen pages met on Thursday,
December 6, at the NJPA offices to hear Diana Mitsu Klos of the
American Society of Newspaper Editors and Steve Chiger of
the Garden State Scholastic Press Association outline ways their
organizations are poised to support the the youth-readership
initiatives of New Jersey's newspapers.
Click here
for a summary of the meeting discussion.
NAA Research Shows Bottom-Line
Benefit of NIE and Youth Pages
 Three
research studies done by the Newspaper Association of American
Foundation illustrate how the combined efforts of Newspaper in
Education Programs and youth pages could be
the last-best chance of reaching potential readers for the
nation's newspapers.
Click here
for a summary of each research project and links to the full
reports.
Thomas Paine Story Published in N.J. Newspapers
 New
Jersey teachers are invited to participate in our
major project for the 2007 - 2008 school year, the publication
of a serialized story, Thomas Paine: An American Patriot.
Click here
or on the image above to go to the special Web site and
teacher's guide created for this project, which meshes with the
federal mandate for the study of the U.S. Constitution.
NIE coordinators and
youth-page editors are encouraged to keep
information about their newspapers up to date by contacting
foundationprograms@njpa.org. |
