by Kaja Andrić | 26 Jan 2024 | Journalism, Youth Voices
Can we explain mass shootings in places like the Czech Republic or Serbia as American-influenced phenomena or is something else going on? We turned to one expert to learn more. Jason Silva. (Photo courtesy of Jason Silva) On 21 December 2023, Charles University in...
by Lauren Heuser | 2 Oct 2019 | Journalism, Media Literacy, News Decoder Updates
Two global prizes supported by News Decoder recognize projects in the UK and U.S. that fight fake news and gun violence. (Photo courtesy of The Student View) A UK not-for-profit promoting media literacy and a U.S. team reporting on gun violence have won global prizes,...
by News Decoder | 8 May 2019 | Africa, African Leadership Academy, Personal Reflections, Student Posts, Women, Youth Voices
I use the human race to play my evil game. I’m to blame for wife-beating, guns, bomb flames. I’m the infamous, rash, spirit of violence. By Chiro Awoke Ogbo Violence I am the model of a modern millennial demon A venomous venerated veteran of a special evil I’m held...
by Naudika Williams | 26 Apr 2019 | Personal Reflections, United States, Youth Voices
The sound of a bullet goes out my door and walks up my street. It buys from the corner store and heads where friends meet. A protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty plays dead in the street during a demonstration against gun violence, San Francisco, California, 24...
by Austin Faulds | 16 Nov 2018 | Indiana University, Student Posts, United States
Two survivors of a mass shooting at a U.S. high school in Parkland, Florida urge youth to work for change, saying journalism can make a difference. Throughout the last century, American journalist and activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fought for conservation, civil...