the newspaper, Politiken, Ekstra Bladet, Jyllands-Posten, and the World’s Best News is holding a competition each year where the best newspaper from the 6.-7. the classes and 8.-10. the classes will be named. The competition took place in the weeks 38 to 46 and about out 9,700 children have participated in the competition.

today was the eight winners were found, including both winners of the Ekstra newspaper came from the island of Fyn.

From the Extra Leaf was the 7.a from Strandmølleskolen in Assens. The jury’s justification was:

’the Students have made a really fine newspaper with a fairly wide variety of topics. The students have separated themselves out from other participants by performing many visits and studies out in reality. Both parts are essential building blocks of journalism. Two of the pages in the newspaper have the students even combined these two forms of work, in a study of three different schools. Excellent’.

And from the slightly older grade levels it was 8.d from Aarupskolen in Aarup. The jury’s justification was:

’the Students have made a newspaper with nice layout and good use of sources and quotes. It is great to get the pictures on the case people! The language in the paper flows well, and the editors have been eclectic and have found their own sources. Several of the articles have more than one source to quote, which also is nice. All this leads to a complete newspaper, in which particularly the layout, use of images, and investigative journalism is in the high-class’.

All the world’s countries have signed the UN 17 ambitious verdensmål, and it was just them that was the issue. Verdensmålene deals with, among others: the elimination of poverty, the braking of climate change and more equality across the globe.

There is a tendency to nyhedsbilledet focus on the negative aspects of the world community, and why only a quarter of danes in 2015, believed that the world has become a better place.

fortunately This is not the whole truth – for example more than a billion people escaped extreme poverty over the past decades, and it has been in the news as these, students have had to work with. Thus, the constructive news.

Per Vars rapped on the newspapers ‘ content. Photo: Ida Hammer Ingerslev

On the day was Per Verse master of ceremonies and provided entertainment for the bl.a. to freestyle of student newspapers, the minister for development cooperation, Ulla Tørnæs, attended and gave a speech to the winners, and so did the director of the World’s Best News, Thomas Ravn-Pedersen. As editor respectively of the newspaper Politiken, Jyllands-Posten, and Ekstra Bladet presented the diplomas and gave the students a few words with on the way.

– 7.a from Strandmølleskolen and 8.d from Aarupskolen has really managed to use the real experts and talk with real people. It is something that lives up to our motto here on the Extra Leaf, which is called ‘Welcome to reality’.

– in Addition, they have managed to make a very abstract topic incredibly tangible. I’m sure we can be confident about the future, ” says Poul Madsen happy after the awards ceremony.

If you would like to read all the winners ‘ fine products, press here.