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Participating Newspaper in Education Programs
Several New Jersey newspapers have decided to participate in the 2008 Student/Parent Mock Election on October 30.
Their primary role is to help the New Jersey Press Foundation publicize the Mock Election by contacting the teachers who receive newspapers in their classrooms as part of the Newspaper in Education Program.
Promotional fliers distributed to teachers by E-mail or by regular mail, as well as advertisements in the newspaper, include an enrollment form that a school Mock Election Coordinator can fill out and return by September 30.
Beyond that basic role of promoting the Mock Election, newspapers may choose to operate other educational programs in schools. Those programs could include teacher workshops, essay contests, debates, sending reporters into classes and inviting students to write articles for youth or teen pages.
The following newspapers that are members of the NJPF Newspaper in Education & Youth Readership Committee have agreed to participate in the Mock Election.
You will be able to find contact information about the NIE coordinators of these 10 newspapers by clicking here:
Asbury Park Press, Neptune
Burlington County Times, Willingboro
Community Newspapers of the North
Jersey Media Group (Suburban Trends, Kinnellon)
Home News Tribune, East Brunswick
Hunterdon County Democrat, Flemington
New Jersey Herald, Newton
North Jersey Media Group (The Record
and Herald News)
The
Philadelphia Inquirer (for New Jersey schools the newspaper serves)
The Press of Atlantic City
The Star-Ledger, Newark
All other New Jersey newspapers are urged to participate in the Mock Election. They will be added to the list above when they contact Tom Engleman, program director of the New Jersey Press Foundation.
The main thing newspapers do is to promote the Mock Election to teachers and school administrators that participate in the Newspaper in Education Program. To help, NJPF has prepared two versions of a page the newspaper can send to schools or print as a "house ad" in the newspaper. The school's Mock Election coordinator then returns the form to enroll their schools as a Mock Election participant.
Newspapers are encouraged to write news stories and take photos on Mock Election Day, October 30, and to print at least one article about the Mock Election results in the next day's paper.
Results of the Mock Election will be reported during the evening hours of October 30 by the New Jersey Press Foundation.