Young Reader

Monday 10 September 2007

Daily Monitor trains teachers

In an effort to improve primary education and help teachers use its Newspapers in Education programme, the Daily Monitor has extended the program to the eastern region of Uganda.

More than 200 teachers were trained last week on how to use newspapers in their classrooms to bring out creativity in students while giving them more of a quality education.

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Wednesday 5 September 2007

Beeld manager breaks down young reader myths

The marketing communications manager of Afrikaans daily newspaper Beeld Wednesday listed myths about media consumption habits of young readers in South Africa that can be applied to better serving young readers around the world.

Gavin Rheeder's conclusions are based on his work with JIP, the KwaZulu-Natal-based newspaper's weekly youth insert. JIP caters to Afrikaans readers between ages 13 and 25. It is inserted into Beeld, Volksblad and Die Burger, and has a readership of 316,000.

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