How the project works

The Irish News Young News Readers Critical Literacy Media Project was developed to provide a weekly School Edition newspaper to schools at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3, to support literacy skills and learning.

Research showed, being 'too boring and irrelevant' as reasons for lack of interest in news in a younger audience. This initiative was developed to engage young people in news by utilising innovative tactics to communicate relevant information in an interesting way to them.

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