The North Carolina Newspapers in Education program encourages young people to become lifelong readers and learners, capable writers, informed, involved adults, thoughtful consumers of news and advocates for the First Amendment.

For more information,
contact Sandra Cook:
NC Press Foundation, Newspapers in Education, CB3365, 19 Carroll Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365, (919) 843-5648, fax (919) 843-4734
sandynie@unc.edu

Business office:
5171 Glenwood Ave., Ste. 364
Raleigh, NC 27612
(919) 787-7443
fax (919) 787-5302
www.ncpress.com

Local NIE

Each newspaper's NIE program is unique. Programs may include:

Classroom sets of newspapers offered at special rates to area schools and other educational settings
Lesson plans and curricula and reproducible worksheets and graphic organizers
Educational materials that cover a range of subjects and grade levels, including sections and features that run in the newspaper Teaching workshops
Contests
Web sites
Special sections written by and for young readers
Newspaper tours and classroom speakers

To find out what a newspaper offers through NIE, contact that newspaper. Also, refer to the NC NIE contact list (PDF) and the following NC NIE Web sites:

Asheville: Asheville Citizen-Times
Burlington: The Times-News
Concord and Kannapolis: Independent Tribune
Durham: The Herald-Sun
Fayetteville: Fayetteville Observer
Gastonia: The Gaston Gazette
Greensboro: News & Record
Greenville: The Daily Reflector
Hendersonville: Hendersonville Times-News
Jacksonville: The Daily News
Kinston: The Kinston Free Press
Morehead City: Carteret County News-Times
New Bern: The New Bern Sun Journal
Raleigh: Raleigh News & Observer
Rocky Mount:Rocky Mount Telegram
Shelby: The Star
Wilmington: Star-News
Winston-Salem: Winston-Salem Journal

Local newspapers fund their NIE programs in a variety of ways:

Discounted subscriptions purchased by schools
Donations from subscribers
Donations from parents and other individuals in the community
Financial support from local civic organizations, business partners and corporations
Grants from foundations
Special fundraising events
Support from the newspapers that offer NIE programs