Photo-Taking, Video-Making, News Writing, and Blogging
Reading and Writing the News
Books about the News and Newspapers
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne. Lesa Cline-Ransome, 2020.
The Prehistoric Times. Stella Gurney. Illustrated by Matthew Hudson and Neave Parker. Francis Lincoln Children's Books, 2017
The Paperboy. Dav Pikey. Scholastic, 1996
Henry and the Paper Route. Beverly Cleary. Illustrated by Tracy Dockray. HarperCollins, 2009
The Landry News. Andrew Clements. Illustrated by Brian Selznick. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1999
NewsPrints. Ru Xu. Graphix, 2017
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber. Sue Macy. Illustrated by C. F. Payne. Simon & Schuster, 2016
Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter. Beth Famtaskey. HMH Books for Young Readers, 2017
History of Newspapers
First issue, April 24, 1704
First continuously published newspaper in America
Newspapers: Daily Readership by Age, 1999-2015
Young people, 18-24, rank lowest in daily newspaper reading
Teens get most of their news from Snapchat or Twitter
12 Great Moments That Changed Newspaper History. Lori Fromowitz. 12-Story Library, 2014
Early American Newspapering from Colonial Williamsburg
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress
Search newspaper pages from 1789 - 1924
Newsboys Strike of 1899
A History of Newspaper: Gutenberg's Press Started a Revolution, The Washington Post (February 11, 1998)
History of Newspapers in America, ThoughtCo. (May 31, 2018)
First Newspaper Published in the Colonies, Publick Occurrences, in Boston, September 25, 1690
Boys Selling Newspapers on Brooklyn Bridge (1908)
Digital Resources for Reading and Writing the News
Wiki Topic Page on Freedom of the Press
Sources of News and Newspapers for Young Readers
Awesome Free News Sites for Students
Includes links to CNN10; DOGOnews; PBS Newshour Daily News Lessons; NYT Daily Lessons/Article of the Day; Smithsonian Tween Tribune; Youngzine, and more
Today's Front Pages: from 500+ newspapers worldwide
The Smithsonian publishes news stories online for different grade levels:
Newsela - News stories and articles about topics of interest to children provided online daily at five different reading levels
Newsomatic - Young writers can respond to the news with drawings and interact with the news by coming up with interview questions.
Newspapers Fact Sheet, Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media (June 13, 2018)
How to Help Kids Create an 'Our Street Herald', The New York Times (December 6, 2020)
Picture Prompts
A Year of Picture Prompts: Over 160 Images to Inspire Writing, The New York Times
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