March 2009 Archives

Baltimore/D.C.• Volume 3 • Issue 1
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: March 3, 2009
Clockwise: Adam Goldstein, Tonya Gonzalez, Kathleen Mannix, Emma Nolan-Abrahamian, (Heather Reilly from Critical Exposure), Tennessee Watson, (Marie Moll and Ronald Chacon from Latin American Youth Center), Ingrid Hu Dahl, and David Sloan. Letter from the Editor Welcome to YMR's...

Empowering Youth to Knock Down Walls
By: Adam Goldstein
Published: March 3, 2009
Too often, professionals try to defend student media when they should be teaching young people how and why to defend their own media.

Funding the Nascent Field of Youth Media
By: Tonya Gonzalez
Published: March 2, 2009
We need opportunities for dialogue, outside of the funding model, between foundations and youth media practitioners.

Weathering Change and Relocation in Washington D.C.
By: Kathleen Reilly Mannix
Published: March 2, 2009
The squeeze on real estate is real, and media professionals and other nonprofits must continue to figure out how to provide high-quality service while the ground threatens to shift beneath them.

Photography in the Field: Empowering Youth and Affecting Public Policy
By: Emma Nolan-Abrahamian
Published: March 2, 2009
As a tool easily shared with others and linked between the visual and media arts, photography ought not to remain on the outskirts of the youth media field.

It’s a Big Screen After All? How Connecting with New Audiences Strengthens Youth Media
By: David Sloan
Published: March 2, 2009
As a tool for framing dialogue around community issues, youth media is capable of having a serious impact on audiences outside the field, but too often the distribution and the screening of end products preaches to the choir.

Why Youth Media Needs a Social Worker
By: Tennessee Watson
Published: March 2, 2009
An interview-dialogue with a video instructor and director at the Latin American Youth Center’s Art + Media House with their social worker/youth developer on site staff person.