14 year old BBC News Journalists
December 12, 2008 – 6:59 pmBBC News group has articulated a vision of educating the kids in an interesting manner. The British Broadcasting Corporation has come up with BBC News School Report campaign that aims at inculcating the “good journalism” seeds in their school kids.
The idea is that the students of the various UK schools would create school news, and publish it on their school website. BBC would link its website to those school’s websites, so that people could see the writing and journalism talent of ‘students in their tender age’.
Huw Edwards, a chief official of ‘The BBC News School Report’ says that the campaign is aimed towards infusing the principles of smart and effective journalism in kids. Sometime Kids have such a sense of discretion and thought process that they present the incidents/issues/debates that are “really” important to people at large. So these kids can decide the factors of ‘what’, ‘who’ and ‘for whom’, and form news from any and all corners of the world. The results would be out on the 29th March, 2009- so the big kids (does it sound an oxymoron??!) have ample of preparation time! Good luck journos!