EDUCOMUNICAÇÃO

Os jovens e a leitura da Imprensa

Há quem se preocupe em encontrar caminhos que procurem estreitar os laços entre os mais novos e os jornais e as revistas. Num artigo de Elisabetta Povoledo, publicado ontem no International Herald Tribune, sob o título Papers reach out to a new generation, referem-se alguns dos caminhos que na Europa, e em particular na Itália, estão a ser trilhados. Fica a parte inicial do texto:

"Faced with increasing competition from the Internet, mobile phones and other modern distractions, major European newspapers are joining forces to attract the youth audience - and teachers are more than willing to help.
In nearly 29,000 classrooms in Italy this past school year, students spent an hour a week comparing how different dailies covered the news, and the initiative, called "a newspaper in the classroom," looks set to spread to other European countries. The aim is to hone critical skills through the comparative study of newspapers and to bring teenagers closer to the print media (...".