Minnesota Target Date

Get your newspaper in front of young people as part of a classroom exercise in comparing different kinds of newspapers and communities.  All it takes is your commitment to mail one newspaper to each participating school that requests one.

“Minnesota Newspaper Target Date” is based on a national program, but features a custom-written curriculum and, of course, Minnesota newspapers.  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 culture and economic diversity in the state. 

The program runs throughout March 2009, to coincide with Newspaper in Education (N.I.E.) Week, March 2-6.  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.  It’s very important that you indicate your preference below as this information must be mailed to teachers along with the curriculum.This project of the MNA Journalism Education Committee provides teachers with a 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).

If you would like to sign up for the first time, fill out the sign-up sheet and return it to MNA. A copy of the Target Date curriculum and an explanation of how the program works is on the MNA Web site here.

Contact Barbara Trebisovsky at 800-279-2979 or 612-278-0240 or by e-mail to barbara@mna.org if you have additional questions.

Sign-up Form

Newspaper kit

Teacher Curriculum