Benefits
Educational purpose
The charity provides free learning opportunities to students and the public through online forums, journalism critiques, and seminars. The Visual Editors peer-to-peer education concept helps student journalists and also helps make journalism practices more transparent to lay people.
Visual Editors serves high school and college students students who are studying journalism. High school and college educators use Visual Editors’ virtual classroom resources for teaching journalism.
Visual Editors brings to the vanguard many leading and scholarly topics, news analysis, interviews and dialogue of interest to students of journalism.
Additional learning resources are provided for students and the public to be able to access the expertise and resources of professional journalists. These include, but are not limited to, personalized critiques of student work, career evaluation and guidance, to providing specific editing and reporting techniques and examples.
Digital classrooms that never close
The charity provides online educational resources, programming, podcasts, video lectures, and other instructional media to students and the public through online forums, journalism critiques, and seminars. Visual Editors, NFP provides the majority of these classrooms and research materials for students in electronic form for free at www.visualeditors.com.
An interactive, online learning laboratory
The not-for-profit offers interactive teaching tools to help high school and college students and teachers study and share state-of-the-art journalism techniques. Top media professionals from the world’s newsrooms volunteer their time in Visual Editors learning laboratories.
Promotes the study of visual journalism
Visual Editors brings to the vanguard leading scholarly topics, journalism case studies, interviews, and media developments of interest to students of journalism.
Used by students, journalists and educators
Visual Editors documents feedback from high school and college students students who are studying journalism using our teaching tools. Educators also use Visual Editors’ virtual classroom resources to research current journalism issues for their own classrooms. Students on Visual Editors are able to study the latest reporting, editing and design techniques, story forms, media trends, and interactive strategies.
Exclusive learning resources
The Redesign Wing of Visual Editors offers scholarly
research-level exhibits of recent newspaper redesigns. Students can explore the redeisgned papers from Paris to Minneapolis at actual size. They can comment on them, too.
To our knowledge there is no other virtual museum/gallery like this offered for students anywhere. Visual Editors is the only non-profit group that offers students of journalism and the public a free and unrestricted
virtual classroom and educational exchange to study and comment on the state of newspapers, online media and visual editing.
Giving student a strong voice
The individual blogs of Visual Editors feature journlaists from the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Australia, the U.K., India and a student journalist from Moscow, Russia. Students rarely are afforded the opportunity to have such powerful peer-debate platforms outside of their universities.