PEARL World Youth News
A
student news service inspired by
journalist Daniel Pearl
In
partnership with the Daniel
Pearl Foundation, this initiative
has launched a unique international news service called PEARL
World Youth News. Adhering
to the highest journalistic
standards, secondary school students from
around
the world select the
issues to be reported, and write, edit and
publish their articles on the web-based
news service. Any school can reprint articles from
PEARL World Youth News to add
a global
component
to their local publications.
 This project aims to take students
beyond becoming media literate into becoming international correspondents
for student publications. Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter
who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan, used journalism and music to
connect people of diverse backgrounds. His skills as a foreign correspondent
and his commitment to promoting understanding have inspired this initiative.
Any high school
student can join the news service as a PEARL reporter after successfully
completing an online training
and certification course. Four sets of schools are responsible
for
editing news stories submitted by
PEARL reporters -
one each for News, Features, Entertainment, and Music and Performing
Arts. The section editor schools
then send the articles to
the Managing Editor school, which makes
the
final choice
of stories to be
published on PEARL World Youth
News.
The worldwide
team of PEARL reporters and editors is
encouraged to work collaboratively while researching, writing
and editing articles.
With an emphasis
on unbiased reporting and respect for a diversity of views, PEARL
World Youth News hopes
to not only develop journalistic skills
among students but also
broaden cross-cultural
understanding and
provide an important global youth perspective.
Contact: For more information about participating in this iEARN project,
write to anindita@us.iearn.org.
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