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Grading the News
By: Kendra Hurley
Published: June 27, 2005
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In Brief

The Youth Media Council, dedicated to improving news coverage of youth, partnered with the Youth Justice Project, which helps formerly incarcerated youth become advocates for social change, to monitor a Northern California newspaper to evaluate the fairness and accuracy of its stories about young people. Their findings and recommendations provide a local look at a national problem: stories about youth tend to focus on crime, and youths themselves are rarely quoted.

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