The festivities for this year's edition of the ARA Children's Daily have come to a close. On Tuesday morning, November 25th, at the La Mercè Cultural Center in Girona, the awards ceremony was held for the teenagers from the seven primary and secondary schools in the city of Girona who illustrated the special edition of the newspaper on November 20th, coinciding with World Children's Day. This 2025 edition... The central theme was the fake news And for the first time in the project's 13 years, the students not only illustrated the newspaper's interviews, news stories, and reports, but also wrote some of the published articles themselves. Specifically, the young people from Girona signed the articles of the supplement Girona Regions last ThursdayThe publication, comprised entirely of articles, illustrations, and opinion pieces written by teenagers from 5th grade to 4th year of ESO (secondary school), from the participating schools: FEDAC Sant Narcís; Montessori; and the Montilivi, Jaume Vicens Vives, Maristas, Mediodía, and Ermesenda high schools. At the awards ceremony, held for the second consecutive year in Girona, all the teenagers were able to read their own work and received a copy of the 20th edition of the newspaper as a gift. Accustomed to screens and getting their news that way, they consulted the papers repeatedly, something they had likely rarely done before, delighted to see their work recognized in a traditional print publication.

Now it seems that truth is a matter of opinion and comes disguised in a thousand versions, all dressed in the same typography, with the same urgency, and often with the same ill intent.fake newsThey have become a central threat to a society accustomed to jumping to conclusions before thinking.

This year, on the anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, we have no choice but to speak of the impossible childhood of Gaza. Beyond the necessary political discourse, we must continue to discover and feel the dehumanization of a world, our world, in which a child must beg for their life.

Students from 5th grade of Primary School to 4th year of Secondary School from six educational centers in Girona have participated in the competition of informative pieces and drawings on the right to informationAnalyzing the rise of disinformation and fake news, the project, organized by ARA and UNICEF, with the collaboration of the Girona City Council and Plataforma Educativa, involved more than 100 students from IES Ermessenda, Maristes Girona, Migdia School, Montessori Girona, IES Montilivi, Fedac Sant Narcís, and IES Vicens Vives. Unlike previous competitions, students were asked to write informative pieces, not stories, on the topic of disinformation and fake news. fake newsMost of the participants wrote opinion pieces. Below are the winning entries and drawings. The prizes will be awarded on Tuesday, November 25th at the La Mercè Cultural Center in Girona.

This Thursday, the ARA will be dedicated to analyzing the fake news and how they affect childhood and adolescence. To mark World Children's Day, the newspaper, as every year, will be illustrated by children and will include a reflection on media literacy.

November 9, 2024. Argentina. Christian Martin, European correspondent for La Nación+ (LN+), reporting from the United Kingdom, talks about the floods of Cadaqués with a false image. Instead of showing on-screen photos of cars crammed into the riverbank, the Argentine news program depicts the downpours with the Onyar River, at the height of Girona's iconic colorful houses, filled with cars swept away by the force of the river. What Argentines perceived as just another piece of news, for Girona residents—when the video spread on social media—was a demonstration of the extent to which images generated by artificial intelligence can alter our perception of reality and generate misinformation.