Minnesota Target Date

Join Minnesota Newspaper Association in celebrating Newspapers in Education Week, March 7-11, 2011.

The Minnesota Newspaper Target Date program will allow you to get your newspaper in front of young people as part of a classroom exercise in comparing different kinds of newspapers and communities.  All you need to do is send one copy of your newspaper to each participating school that requests one.  MNA's Target Date program is based on a national program, and features a custom-written curriculum for Minnesota students. Both daily and weekly newspapers are encouraged to participate.

The purpose of “Minnesota Newspaper Target Date” is to promote the use of newspapers in the classroom and to provide awareness of cultural and economic diversity in the state. 

The program runs throughout March 2011, to coincide with Newspaper in Education (N.I.E.) Week, March 7-11, 2011.  A class will select its “target date” and write  to you requesting one copy of your newspaper from that date.

You may provide your newspaper at no charge or request an N.I.E. rate which is usually half your newsstand price; please indicate your preference on the registration form as this information is mailed to teachers along with the program curriculum.  This project of the MNA Journalism Education Committee provides teachers with free curriculum which urges them to use newspapers in their classrooms to compare communities and their newspapers from across the state.

The extent of your involvement is to provide one newspaper to each classroom which requests one during the month of March, either free or at a Newspaper In Education rate (which is usually half the newsstand rate).

To sign up, please fill out the Target Date registration form and return it to MNA.

Contact MNA Program Director Sarah Bauer with any questions regarding this program by email or by phone (612-278-0250).

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Program Materials

For Newspapers: 2011 Minnesota Newspaper Target Date Registration Form

For Newspapers: Program Information Packet

For Teachers:  Minnesota Newspaper Target Date Program Curriculum