News Decoder
This transparency report details the answers provided by this media outlet to the Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI) questionnaire. The JTI is an industry-driven initiative to establish trusted journalism.
Nouvelles-Découvertes
43, rue de la Division du Général Leclerc
94110
Arcueil
France
+33 6 60 66 08 68
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SIRET: 81850765900014
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Association identifier: RN W751229654
News Decoder
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https://www.youtube.com/c/News-decoder
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Our mission
News Decoder is a global educational news service for young people founded in 2015. Our mission is to help young people develop internationally-recognized global citizenship competencies, including the ability to communicate to global audiences, appreciate diverse perspectives, think critically about global issues and identify solutions to local, national and global problems.
What we do
Through past and present partnerships with nearly 50 schools in 20 countries on five continents, News Decoder teaches journalism, media literacy and global citizenship skills that help young people better understand complex international issues.
Our educational services include mentoring by professional journalists, training workshops in pitching and interviewing, webinars on global issues, e-learning courses and handbooks on reporting and writing.
Why we do it
Tackling the multiple, interconnected challenges of the 21st century requires savvy, informed and responsible global citizens.
News Decoder approaches this in a unique way: we use journalism training and news literacy to nurture the skills, knowledge and values that students need to cooperate in resolving the great global challenges of our time, including conflict, poverty, sustainability and climate change.
By supporting young people to think like journalists — interrogating information sources, considering all sides of an argument and examining context and precedent — we help them to become critical-thinking, responsible media consumers and creators.
By deepening their understanding of the news and facilitating interactions with experts, we help them develop a sophisticated, nuanced understanding of the political, economic and social dimensions of global issues.
By fostering international, cross-cultural collaborations between young people, we help to instill universal values, intercultural awareness and respect for both diversity and our common humanity.
These qualities are the foundation of global citizenship. They are also transferable to multiple occupations and help to equip our students for success in whatever career they choose.
Who we are
News Decoder is the educational services unit of Nouvelles-Découvertes, a French nonprofit association under the law of 1901, whose mission is to inform young people about international relations with tolerance, objectivity and broad vision.
Qui sommes-nous?
News Decoder est une activité de Nouvelles-Découvertes, association loi 1901 à but non lucratif. Nouvelles-Découvertes a comme objectifs:
Promouvoir l’éducation et l’information des jeunes de par le monde au sujet des grands thèmes d’actualité internationale;
Diffuser et échanger des textes, articles de presse et/ou d’information, de photographies, de vidéos, de graphiques et d’autres moyens d’information, existants ou à venir, sur ces grands thèmes d’actualité sur tous supports On ou Offline;
Organiser, animer et produire des événements et des manifestations facilitant les échanges entres citoyens de différentes régions du monde afin de promouvoir la compréhension et le respect mutuel;
Créer un forum et des plateformes de diffusion d’information favorisant la libre expression d’idées et de perspectives, toujours avec tolérance, objectivité et une vision large.
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https://news-decoder.com/about-us/
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Association loi 1901 (Nonprofit organisation)
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N/A - As a nonprofit organisation, the association has no owners, direct or indirect.
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Christian Henry; Faith Abiodun; Lauren Heuser; Nelson Graves; Betty Wong; Audrey Chapuis; Elis Estrada; Martha Clement Rochford; Michael Igoe; William Schluter; Sonali Verma
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https://news-decoder.com/our-team/#trustees
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N/A - News Decoder, as a nonprofit organisation, does not have any owners, direct or indirect.
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Christian Henry, President - [email protected]
Faith Abiodun, Vice President - [email protected]
Lauren Heuser, Vice President - [email protected]
Nelson Graves, Founder and Secretary - [email protected]
Betty Wong, Treasurer - [email protected]
Audrey Chapuis - [email protected]
Elis Estrada - [email protected]
Martha Clement Rochford - [email protected]
Sonali Verma - [email protected]
Michael Igoe - [email protected]
William Schluter - [email protected]
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Marcy Burstiner, Educational News Director - [email protected]
Maria Krasinski, Managing Director - [email protected]
Cathal O’Luanaigh, Program & Communications Manager - [email protected]
43, rue de la Division du Général Leclerc
94110 Arcueil
France
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News Decoder's communications and social media manager is responsible for the upkeep of the organizations' social media channels and reacting to relevant queries of the public. We respond to web-based forms by email and article comments within stories or in direct messages.
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Cathal O'Luanaigh, Program & Communications Manager, manages front-line communications.
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43, rue de la Division du Général Leclerc
94110 Arcueil, France
Our revenue derives from multiple sources, including school memberships, workshop and speaking fees, donations and institutional grants. Sources of revenue do not influence or control the editorial content that we publish on our site.
https://news-decoder.com/our-supporters/
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In 2025, our trading income was €405,006.
Donations: 57.6%
Grants: 35%
School Memberships: 7%
Speaking Fees: 0.4%
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News Decoder collects personal information in several ways. We collect information that users provide to us; information collected through use of the site; and information collected from publicly available sources or third parties.
Information that users provide: When users register, subscribe, donate or otherwise interact with our site, they may be asked to provide certain personal information. For example, if users register to access our educational resources, users will be asked to provide their name, email address and select other information. If users make a donation or complete a payment, they will need to provide information such as their credit card details.
Information collected through the use of our site: We collect aggregated data about site users by using web analytics services such as Google Analytics. Aggregated data does not enable us to identify individuals, but it does enable us to collect generic information about traffic flow and demographics. This aggregated data is collected automatically when you visit our site through the use of cookies and similar technologies.
Information that we collect from publicly available sources or third parties: News Decoder may receive personal information about users through our own research of publicly available sources or from third party sources, as permitted by law, such as online marketing and data analytics databases.
We collect personal data about users for various reasons. In general terms, we collect and use user personal data to fulfill our educational mission, fulfill our obligations to partner schools, generate revenue and optimise user experience on our site.
More specifically, we collect personal information for the following principal reasons:
To provide access to our educational resources: We require school registrants’ personal information to enable them to access and use our educational resources, correspond with our editorial team and communicate with other students, faculty or experts in News Decoder’s network.
To accept story pitches and correspondent inquiries: If you are interested in pitching a story to News Decoder or joining News Decoder’s correspodent pool, we will ask for personal data to contact you and facilitate the editorial process.
To communicate information: We use personal data to keep users informed of our latest content, announcements, fundraising campaigns, contests and events.
To bill and collect payment from our partner schools: We collect partner schools’ information to effectively invoice and collect payment from them.
To collect donations: We use donors’ information to solicit and process donations and to inform them about how their contributions have been used.
To improve and maintain performance: To provide school registrants with the best possible experience, we use personal information to understand how school registrants experience our site and educational resources so we can make improvements. This includes analysing onsite data and contacting school registrants with surveys or emails.
To administer contests and prize draws: If a school registrant(s) enters a contest or prize draw, we will process his, her or their information in order to run the contest or administer the prize draw.
Recruitment: If a candidate applies for a job or internship via our site, we will process information in order to facilitate the application process.
News Decoder has appropriate technical and administrative security measures in place to help ensure that user information is protected against unauthorised or accidental access, use, alteration or loss by unauthorised third parties.
We operate a global organization, so user personal information may be processed and stored outside the European Economic Area. We put in place contractual safeguards to protect information that is transferred to third parties.
In the event that a data breach occurs, News Decoder shall do its utmost to mitigate the risks and take all adequate corrective actions or measures, including informing the national authority responsible for personal data protection and, where relevant, data subjects.
We disclose personal information to facilitate the running of our organization or to provide specific services you have requested. Commonly, we will disclose information to:
Service providers: We engage service providers that support our organization and improve our site and services. These service providers include digital content and marketing services; customer relationship management platforms; payment providers; fiscal sponsors; and organisations that host our site or data.
Correspondents: We may provide school registrants’ personal data to our correspondents for the purpose of enabling them to assist with offering subject matter expertise, editing the school registrant’s multimedia content, leading workshops or participating in webinars with our partner schools.
Other partner schools: We may provide school registrants’ personal data to educators or students at our other partner schools for the purpose of facilitating educational opportunities, including participation in a webinar or collaborative creation of multimedia content.
Other users: Parts of our site are publicly accessible to anyone around the world. Other public visitors will be able to see comments you post on an article. We encourage you to use a pseudonym when commenting on our site if you do not wish to be identifiable to other readers.
Legal processes and successors in title: We, and our suppliers, may disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, court orders or other valid legal processes, and to enforce or apply our partnership agreement or any of our other rights.
More on: https://news-decoder.com/privacy-policy-2/
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All content passes through an editing process that ensures it is professionally vetted from start to finish before it is published. News Decoder’s editors have many years of experience covering complicated, controversial stories and have zero tolerance for bias, inaccuracy or sensationalism. Any comments on stories are reviewed by a senior editor before they are published.
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In our Young Reporters Ethics policy, we state, "It is your duty as a journalist to verify all information you publish, even when you quote someone else. It also includes external photographs, video or audio you might use."
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In our Young Reporters Ethics policy, we state, "It is your duty as a journalist to verify all information you publish, even when you quote someone else. It also includes external photographs, video or audio you might use."
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We review all comments before approval. We review all requests to edit or remove articles, from authors or subjects featured in the article.
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