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NJPF Named N.J. Coordinator for
the National Student/Parent Mock Election
 All
New Jersey newspapers are asked to help NJPF promote the Mock
Election this summer and fall to schools throughout the state. This is a BIG DEAL for our
newspapers.
NJPF has created a
New Jersey Mock Election
Web site for this event. The Mock Election will be held on
or before
October 30.
The school
enrollment form can be downloaded from that Web site.
New Jersey's NIE and Youth
Readership Program Named 2nd Best in the Nation
 The
NIE & Youth Readership Committee of the New Jersey Press
Association was honored by the Newspaper Association of America
Foundation with a second-place General Excellence award for our
2007 programs.
The award was accepted by Cynthia Forster (The
Record and the Herald News) and Bill Canacci (Home
News Tribune).
Click here to read an article about that honor and about another
national award presented to The Record at the NAA
Foundation's annual Young Reader Conference May 17 in Phoenix.
The Record, Burlington County Times
Win Top NIE Honors in State
Congratulations to The Record and The Burlington
County Times for winning first-place awards in the 2007 Better
Newspaper Contest. The Record won in the category NIE
Programs/Educational Projects; the BCT won for NIE Programs/All
Promotions to Increase NIE Circulation.
Click here to retrieve a PDF of the winning entries in the
circulation contest.
E-editions of Newspapers Touted
as an Alternate Way to Reach Young Readers
A report
on the committee's February program is posted on an inside page of this Web site. For a summary and a link to the full NAA report,
click here.
NAA Research Shows NIE Programs and Youth Pages
Benefit The Bottom Line
Click here
for a summary of three national research projects and links to three full
reports.
NIE coordinators and
youth-page editors are encouraged to keep
information about their newspapers up to date by contacting
foundationprograms@njpa.org. |
