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Young reporters snag international journalism awards
WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, U.S.A. – Students in eight countries
on four continents captured awards in Youth Journalism
International’s first worldwide journalism contest.
“We had a wealth of really good entries from many different
students and schools. Picking the best proved much harder than
we ever dreamed,” said Steve Collins, president of the board for
YJI.
Earning top honors as the Student Journalist of the Year was
Megan Mizuta of Boise, Idaho, whose stellar work for The
Borah Senator showed
off her courage, her nose for news and her range of talent.
“Megan is the epitome of student journalism: she is honest,
communicates clearly, constantly experiments with journalistic
forms, assists the staff with copy editing, vehemently practices
journalism ethics and provides leadership,” wrote Michelle
Harmon, her adviser at Borah High School.
Katie Jordan, a YJI editor, said Mizuta “impressed us with the
scope of her writing. She's just as capable of writing hard news
stories about budget cuts and student-teacher affairs as she is
of writing opinion or sports stories.”
A high school journalism advisor in Darien, Conn., Stacey
Wilkins, won Journalism Educator of the Year for her exemplary
work with both her school’s paper, Neirad,
and her efforts to create the Connecticut Academic Press
Association. Read more
Fun and Games
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-- WORLD CUP --
My 2010 World Cup experience
A World Cup match in Durban, South Africa between South Korea
and Nigeria.
Nicole Megan Gounder/youthjournalism.org
DURBAN, South Africa – Though World
Cup matches were playing in my home city, I never expected to be
able to actually get inside the stadium to see it for myself.
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More on the World Cup
A msterdam,
The Netherlands
Caroline Nelissen/youthjournalism.org
For more
World Cup coverage by Youth Journalism International,
click here and
here.
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I’d tried hard to get a ticket to a
match, but for South Africans without some great power of
authority, trying to score a ticket at the last minute was
written off as “Mission Impossible.”
Then on June 14, my uncle presented me
with a ticket to see the June 22 match between South Korea and
Nigeria.
Read whole story
When the thrill is gone
By Eugenia Durante in GENOA,
Italy --
I was at some friends’ home when Fabio Grosso freshened up a
muggy summer night in 2006, scoring the penalty goal which lead
Italy to winning the World Cup.
I remember hearing a rumbling and an enormous mass of people
pouring in the streets with Italian flags, hugging and
screaming.
Beating France, Italy’s the legendary first enemy, to win the
World Cup was the biggest dream of everybody who was a little
involved in football, and we finally did it.
Read whole story
The crowds were out in force at the Victoria &
Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa on the day of the
first 2010 World Cup match between South
Africa and Mexico.
Geraldine Soon/youthjournalism.org
Fans outside the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa
on the night Nigeria took on South Korea.
Nicole Megan Gounder/youthjournalism.org
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-- Sports Opinion --
ESPN forges a soccer fan in America
By Kiernan Majerus-Collins in HARTFORD, Connecticut, USA
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Thank you, ESPN. You took someone (me)
who would have watched maybe two World Cup games – the United
States vs. England game and the final – and turned him into a
fútbol fan.
Now I know that if you, dear reader,
do not live in the United States, you will find my interest in
the World Cup rather lame.
Before I started watching the games, I
could name a total of three or four players taking to the field
in South Africa. Now I can name more than 10.
I couldn’t even tell you who played
well in qualifying. Though I don’t really understand why or how
teams get into the World Cup, I have a sneaking suspicion that
speaking Spanish helps.
Despite all of this, I still feel as
though I have a right to call myself a fan. Thanks to ESPN
Magazine’s wonderfully informative “2010 World Cup Guide,” I
learned that the World Cup is being held in South Africa with 32
teams of which eight – not including the U.S.A. – have a chance
to win and that each of them has a strange nickname. And they
all have cool uniforms.
Read whole story
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Skeleton at the entrance to the Faculty of Health Sciences
at Stellenbosch University in South Africa is rattling his bones as the
World Cup gets underway.
Mariechen Puchert/youthjournalism.org
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Read about the World Youth Peace
Summit in seven languages -- Dari, Dutch, English, German,
Italian, Russian and Turkish:
Dari:
کنکتیکت برای اولین بار میزبان اجلاس جهانی صلح جوانان در
سال 2011 میباشد.
اجلاس
صلح جهانی جوانان که سال آینده در ایالت کنکتیکت ایالات متحده امریکا برگذار
میگردد2500 جوان که از جمله نویسنده گان ، ورزش کاران ، هنرمندان و سایر پیشاوران
میباشند
را
از سراسر جهان گرد هم میاورد.
در حالیکه آنها در تابستان بعدی مشغول بازی ها ، موسیقی و سخنرانی ها میباشند ،
آنها گام به گام برای کشانیدن جهان بسوی صلح کمک خواهند نمود.
Translated into Dari by
ترجمه : ادریس کاکر
Dutch:
Connecticut gastheer van eerste Youth Peace Summit in 2011
By Yelena Samofalova in HARTFORD, Connecticut, U.S.A. –
Volgend jaar zullen 2500 jonge mensen, waaronder
schrijvers, atleten en muzikanten, van over de hele
wereld zich op de World Youth Peace Summit, een
internationale vredesconferentie voor jongeren, in
Connecticut
samenkomen.
vertaald naar het Nederlands door Caroline Nelissen
English:
Connecticut to host first youth peace
summit in 2011
By Yelena Samofalova in HARTFORD, Connecticut, U.S.A. –
The World Youth Peace Summit will gather 2,500 young people from
around the globe –including writers, athletes and musicians – to
Connecticut next year.
Read whole story
G erman:
Connecticut als Gastgeber des ersten Weltjugend
Friedensgipfels im Jahr 2011
By Yelena Samofalova in HARTFORD, Connecticut, U.S.A. –
Beim Weltjugend Friedensgipfel werden im kommenden Jahr
2.500 junge Menschen aus der ganzen Welt, darunter
Autoren, Sportler und Musiker, nach Connecticut kommen.
Übersetzt von Katie Grosser, Münster, Deutschland
Senior reporter,
Youth Journalism International
Italian:
Il primo World Youth Peace Summit 2011 per un'estate di
pace in Connecticut
By
Yelena Samofalova in
HARTFORD,
Connecticut, U.S.A.: Il prossimo anno in Connecticut il World Youth Peace Summit
riunirà 2500 giovani da tutto il mondo, inclusi scrittori, atleti e musicisti.
Tradotto da Eugenia Durante, Genoa, Italy
Senior reporter,
Youth Journalism International
Russian:
Connecticut to host first youth peace
summit in 2011
Translated by Yelena Samofalova, West
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Junior reporter,
Youth Journalism International
Turkish:
Connecticut to host first youth peace
summit in 2011
Translated by Gokce Yurekli, Edison, New
Jersey, U.S.A.
Junior reporter,
Youth Journalism International
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