Making your own news: NewsWise for families

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Practise all the skills of the newsroom with the activities below, then bring them together to produce your own Happy News report!

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Who makes the news?

There are lots of different roles in a newsroom, including reporters, editors, subeditors, picture editors, opinion writers and of course an editor-in-chief!

Want to find out more about how the news is made? Watch our short videos of journalists explaining what they do.

Watch: roles in a newsroom videos

Try out all of these different jobs in our roles in the newsroom activity: decide on the most newsworthy story as a desk editor; become a reporter and interview your friends and family; try being a subeditor and writing the most eye-catching headline; choose the best image for a story as a picture editor.

Roles in a newsroom activity

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Make the headlines!

The random headline generator will help you create fun headlines and learn the subject, verb, object structure: this is one of the techniques that subeditors use for writing simple but effective headlines. You can play this on your own, or with a friend or family member – all you need is a dice and a pen and paper!

Headline generator game

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Happy News Project

Put all your knowledge about the news into practice and produce your very own Happy News report!

Report a happy news story to share with your friends and family.

It could be something that makes you happy or makes you laugh, or an example of someone doing a good deed!

Find a story, research the facts, interview people involved in the story and put together your report. You could write it, video record it (like a TV news report), or audio report it (like a radio news report)!

Share your report with your friends and family! You could also ask an adult to share your story with us on Twitter @GetNewsWise, using #HappyNews.

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