Bangalore newspapers The Deccan Chronicle, DNA India and The New Indian Express are all making a new push to target young readers, Exchange4media reported Wednesday.

Youth “need to be caught when they are in their late teens or as young adults before they enter the corporate world,” said PR Satheesh, COO of Tag Media Network.

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When it comes to accuracy online, students agree newspapers are by far more accurate than news on the Internet. However, information online is looked at in terms of consensus more than accuracy, Peter Duffy, columnist at The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia, wrote Thursday.

“If we go online and find five different articles and they come to the same consensus, then that’s what we’re going to believe, whether it’s right or not,” one high school (secondary school) student told Duffy. “You’re trying to find a commonality. It doesn’t have to be necessarily correct; just believe what everyone else generally believes.”

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In terms of the share of users, Stickam, a live webcam chat community, is now the most popular online video destination among U.S. teens between ages 12 and 17, according to new data from Nielsen Online's VideoCensus online video measurement service, Media Post reported.

About 44 percent of Stickam's over two million members are ages 12 to 17. Among the same age group, music-centric sites Buzznet.com and Atlantic Records followed behind with a close share of 43 percent.

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The Chicago Tribune and public schools in Chicago will together launch a weekly student newspaper and Web site, featuring content written mostly by high school students, and will be the only media products targeting Chicago teens exclusively, a Tribune press release announced, Editor & Publisher reported Monday.

The Tribune Co.'s flagship will distribute 100,000 copies of the student paper to all public high schools in Chicago beginning in September, featuring “student-generated and student-targeted editorial content, with student contributors receiving on-the-job journalism training by Tribune editors, who will review and edit all content,” according to the press release.

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Göteborg, Sweden - “If you want to study 'digital natives,' you need to be with them, otherwise you will not understand what they are doing,” said Katarina Graffman, PhD of Cultural Anthropology at Inculture AB in Sweden said Tuesday at the 61st annual World Newspaper Congress in Göteborg, Sweden.

Observing young people and how they consume media is better than asking them, because many times, they will not be accurate in what they tell you, and you will also be able to observe habits they have that they don't even realise about themselves, she said.

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Children in New Zealand are more media savvy than ever before, but know when they need to switch off the television, Internet or mobile phones, according to a new study, TVNZ reported Tuesday.

The country's Broadcast Minister Trevor Mallard on Tuesday released the Broadcasting Standards Authority report, Seen and Heard: Children's Media Use, Exposure, and Response.

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The UK-based Eastbourne Gazette will launch its new youth newspaper, called The Jigaroo, next week, the paper reported Monday.

The youth publication will be available in the newspaper, and is being produced by an editorial team of students.

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People who grow up reading a newspaper are better, more engaged citizens, the Newspaper Association of America has reported.

Research on young readers show that 62 percent of Americans who read newspapers as teens took part in volunteer work, while only 37 percent of those who did not read newspapers volunteered.

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The Rocky Mountain Collegian of Colorado State University is in jeopardy of being taken over by Gannett Co., Inc., a move the university paper and its staff fears would quash its status as an independent student newspaper, The New York Times reported Monday.

J. David McSwane, the paper's editor, learned early in January that the university's president was meeting with representatives from the city's daily, The Fort Collins Coloradoan, owned by Gannett, to discuss a possible “partnership” between the local paper and the student paper.

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A study by Northwestern University found that teenagers find online news troubling and a reminder of the world's dangers, contrasted by time spent on YouTube, social networking and music downloading sites, which they viewed as a treat.

For the study, "If It Catches My Eye: An Exploration of Online News Experiences of Teenagers," researchers interviewed 65 teens in the Chicago area in 2007. Findings suggests news organisations should cultivate teen audiences by understanding what they are interested in and diminishing their angst, according to a Editor & Publisher report.

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Children have a ravenous appetite for digital content, according to a new report, "Kids and Digital Content," by NPD Group.

The survey tracked the usage of entertainment content (physical and digital) among children using computers, video games, portable music players and mobile phones. It found that kids between age two to 14 consume digital content anywhere, from three to seven times a month on a single device.

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Although most teens don't follow serious news online, news organisations can cultivate their interest by learning how to catch their eyes, a new study by the Media Management Center at Northwestern University claims.

Other tactics news outlets can use to get the attention of teen readers is to “diminish their angst, go where they are on the Web (and) enlist parents and teachers in the cause and help them develop a 'news persona',” the MMC states in the report's executive summary.

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U.S. adults who read newspapers at an early age tend to be more civically active, according to new research from the Newspaper Association of America Foundation.

NAA found that about 75 percent of U.S. adults who read newspapers in school as teenagers donated money to a civic group last year, compared with 51 percent of those who did not read newspapers as teens.

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Lebanon's An-Nahar newspaper announced the launch of its new children's supplement in Beirut Tuesday.

Jarida Kids is aimed at children between ages eight and 12, and was originally thought up by Gibran Tueni, the MP and An-Nahar general manager, who was killed by a car bomb in 2005.

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Kenya’s Nation Media Group (NMG) has added a new title, the Daily Metro, targeting younger readers.

Speaking at the launch ceremony in Nairobi, group chief executive Linus Gitahi said the “easy-read” paper is aimed to cultivate a reading culture among Kenyan youth and those preferring lighter material to read.

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