News Links

National and International

• World News—www.worldnews.com
• Newseum—www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
• TIME/Glencoe Current Events—www.timeclassroom.com
• Teaching Tolerance—www.tolerance.org/teach/current/
• USA Today Snapshots—www.usatoday.com/snapshot/news/snapndex.htm
• North Carolina Newspapers-  http://www.refdesk.com/nc.html
• Newspapers-USA and Worldwide- www.refdesk.com/paper.html
  
• CNN News- http://www.cnn.com/

Major NC Newspapers

• Asheville News—http://citizen-times.com/
• Carteret County—http://www.venturenccoast.com/
• Chapel Hill—www.chapelhillnews.com/
• Charlotte—www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/
• Durham—www.herald-sun.com/
• Fayetteville—www.fayettevillenc.com/
• Greensboro—http://triad.bizjournals.com/triad/
• Hickory—www.hickoryrecord.com/
• Raleigh—www.news-observer.com/
• Winston-Salem—www.journalnow.com

Local Newspapers

Check in your community for the local daily & weekly newspapers or link to Web editions of North Carolina newspapers through the N.C. Press Association, www.ncpress.com/ncpa/newspapersonline.html .  On the site, newspapers are listed in alphabetical order by city.

For more news and information, visit www.newsdirectory.com/  and click on North Carolina under categories such as newspapers and broadcast TV stations.

Instructional Sites

• Public Broadcasting Station—www.pbs.org/elections/kids/
• TIME for Kids—www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
• Scholastic—http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/election2004/
• C-Span—www.c-span.org/classroom/
• Teachable Moment—www.teachablemoment.org/elementary.html
  
• Kids Voting USA—www.kidsvotingusa.org
• Atlas of US Presidential Elections—http://uselectionatlas.org/
• National Student/parent Mock Election—http://uselectionatlas.org/
• We the People: Project Citizen—www.civiced.org/index.php
• N.C. Newspaper in Education- www.ncnewspapersineducation.org
  
  

Newspapers in Education or NIE www.nieonline.com Newspapers publish in several formats, all of which may be used for instructional purposes.  Newspapers in Education provides online lesson plans and other innovative materials for use in the classroom.

• Some newspapers offer print editions, classroom sets, one or more days each week.  Contact the NIE coordinator or manager or call the publisher, editor and/or circulation manager to find out what a newspaper will provide to schools and at what cost.  Newspapers may encourage you to place orders online or provide order forms on Web sites.
  
  
• Some newspapers offer replica or electronic editions (e-Editions).  An e-Edition looks the same as the corresponding print version.  Teachers sign up to receive the e-Editions and use them where students have access to computers or use projectors and white boards for displaying the stories and pages from replica newspapers in class.  In the e-Edition, readers use clicks to move from page to page and magnify text.  Electronic editions generally provide archives that allow users to search for stories related to a topic.  To gain access to e-Editions, teachers should contact the NIE manager at the newspaper they want to use and ask how to sign up for a password to access the e-Editions.
• Most newspapers offer Web sites.  Web sites will publish some or most stories produced by the newspaper and may have an archive that readers may use to conduct research on a topic.  Some newspapers limit access to their archive to readers who subscribe to the print edition.  Some allow open access to the archive for a limited number of days.
  
  
• Increasing numbers of  newspapers’  Web sites include updated reports or continuous news coverage, photo galleries, multimedia presentations, reader comments and reader-generated news.
  
  
• Newspaper in Education programs also offer instructional materials, often in their print editions and/or online, and hands-on training effective use of newspapers.  Some newspapers run sections and features aimed at young readers, such as the Mini Page and serial stories, puzzles and games.  Search newspaper Web sites for NIE or ask the NIE manager for the NIE program’s Web address.  The state NIE program also provides educational materials and content and training.  Access the state NIE program through www.ncpress.com, Click on NCPF and look for NIE.  To receive additional information about NIE in North Carolina, call (919) 843-5648.
  
  
• The Newspaper Association of America Foundation (NAAF) coordinates communication among NIE professionals.  NAAF provides NIE curricula on its Web site.  To review NIE curricula and other publications, visit www.naafoundation.org and click on “Reports and Publication.”  Visit www.naa.org and click on “Newspaper Websites” to gain access to newspapers from across the country.