Journalists and educators around the world continue working urgently to make news literacy and media and information literacy key priorities in helping young people learn how to navigate digital content.

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Twenty-one Danish boys and girls are spending this week in a journalism boot camp as part of a project that aims to teach them how to be reporters, writes Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA's Executive Director of Youth Engagement and News Literacy.

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Millennials discover news through Facebook, not the homepage of a legacy newspaper, and they don't care much about government spying, as the American Press Institute's (APi) study on 'How millennials get news' reported. APi's Executive Director Tom Rosenstiel tells the World Editors Forum what he takes away from the study, and how the trends of the first digital generation are likely to impact journalism.

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They're elusive, sleepy, hungry, and constantly on-the-go. They're young readers – or hopefully will be soon. But there's much more to young people, as well all know. The task for newspapers is figuring out how to best reach them in this sea of information. Most likely it will be on the platform of their choice, covering topics they're interested in and offering something new – preferably in a two-way conversation

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