ChildPress's Literacy Day message connects reading and writing with a wider question: are adults hearing the issues children want to discuss?
A young Arendal youth council member describes families receiving different information on separate screens. The proposed response is a newspaper for the dinner table, giving people shared facts to talk about.
The broadcast explains literacy as reading, writing, speaking and listening in ways that help people understand the world and one another. It asks what happens when children's concerns are missing from public discussions.
Bullying, violence at home and worries about climate change are among the issues the speakers raise. They argue that these concerns deserve attention from adults.
Young reporters are using interviews to learn which adults listen and are willing to support children. Publishing those conversations is also intended to help adults hear young people's questions.
The broadcast invites children to pick up a microphone and take part. It imagines press centres in town halls as places where they could learn to report together.
The shared newspaper and press centres are ideas being promoted. The message's immediate invitation is for children and adults to begin listening to one another.
