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Youth Media is Coming Out
June 16, 2008
Youth media programs have what it takes to support queer youth and their inventive approaches to making media and eradicating homophobia one large step at a time.
Meaningful Distribution: Involving Youth Media Makers Beyond Production
June 6, 2008
Youth media educators have the potential to amplify the impact of youth produced media by extending projects beyond production.
Overcoming Identity Politics in Youth Media
June 6, 2008
The dangers of claiming a utopian answer to a population’s need for voice.
"Ni Full ile laana" (It’s as real as it gets): The creative blending of Hip-Hop with oratory styles to address HIV/AIDS in Tanzania
June 6, 2008
How Tanzanian youth use Hip-Hop to inform their communities of HIV/AIDS and become part of the solution.
“You Must Learn”: Promoting Hip-hop in Education
June 6, 2008
The case of Hip-Hop in an English class proves that using alternative media is a more effective approach to learning.
Hip-Hop: The Medium of Urban Youth
June 6, 2008
Hip-Hop affords urban youth cultural and personal expression and as such, needs to be recognized as an important youth media tool.
The Talking Cure
April 15, 2008
Practitioners don’t need to be junior therapists to support young people who disclose trauma. Creating media and sharing stories is part of the cure.
Thinking Outside the Youth Media Box
April 15, 2008
If youth media wants young people to step outside the box it will have to take its own steps in the same direction.
Hook ‘Em with Technology, Keep ‘Em with Relationships
April 15, 2008
For young people of color, the relationships developed in youth media organizations can be more important than the media produced.
Keeping the 'Youth' in Youth Media
April 15, 2008
A youth leader-turned-employee informs how youth media organizations need young people to take the lead.
Building the Critical Lens of a Captive Youth Audience
April 15, 2008
Young media makers must become a critical and informed audience—skills youth media makers and educators need to prioritize.
The “Educate-able” Youth Media Educator
February 14, 2008
Bearing witness to the effect past educators have on youth can guide our collective, future work as a community of learners.
Even Without Technology Youth Media Thrives
February 14, 2008
Youth media is more than technology. Find out Listen Up!'s perspective on the field.
Avoiding Exploitation
February 14, 2008
Advice on teaching youth media from a media-maker-turned-educator.
Youth journalism: Reporting the News for Global Citizenship
February 14, 2008
A call to the field to support young journalists to report their views and spread youth-produced news among young people from diverse cultures and corners of the world.
Media Savvy Arab Girls Respond to the Mainstream
November 14, 2007
How alternative youth media can and must respond to mainstream news.
Turning the Lens toward Community
October 11, 2007
Teaching photography to students in Ghana to transcend a cultural tsunami.
Explorers of Exchange: Girls Traverse the Digital Divide
October 11, 2007
Girls from the Lower East Side use digital photography to define global exchange with girls in Chiapas, Mexico.
Out of the Screening Room and into the Streets
October 11, 2007
Using film beyond the screening to engage young people and communities in social and grassroots activism.
Generation PRX: Creating a Youth Radio Network
September 17, 2007
Generation PRX is changing the future of radio by connecting a member-led network of youth radio producers, stations and teachers with new ways to distribute audio.
My Trajectory through Youth Radio
September 16, 2007
A graduate-turned-employee’s insight of peer teaching models, innovative program development, and leadership success at Youth Radio.
Radio Stands Out
September 16, 2007
How anonymity and access make youth radio a perfect platform for the development of youth leadership and voice.
An Ally for Youth When it Counts
July 31, 2007
A mentor supports young journalist of female circumcision to the front page
Creating Conversation: Baltimore Youth Explore Audience in the City
July 31, 2007
The student-led initiative BeMore TV finds innovative ways to inform the public about issues important to youth from public access to the local Baltimore community
The Reel Spotlight: What Oprah missed in praising teen filmmaker
June 14, 2007
Two weeks ago, Oprah aired sections of Kiri Davis' film, A Girl Like Me with no discussion of Reel Works Teen Filmmaking.
Incorporating Youth in Fundraising
June 14, 2007
Zoë Hayes, an 18-year-old journalist at Y-Press, offers her perspective on fundraising. Lynn Sygiel, Bureau Director, responds.
Youth, Professionals, and the Blog-o-sphere
May 14, 2007
Patti Binder, founder of the blog What's Good For Girls, gives insights to youth media professionals bound to follow in her lead.
An Alliance for Young Women Who Rock
April 13, 2007
The Girls Rock Camp Alliance—which met for the first time last month to brainstorm ways to maintain a collective mission uniting and supporting young women in music—has become a grassroots movement of burgeoning non-profits across the world that youth media professionals can learn from.
Youth Are the News
April 13, 2007
If newspapers have a responsibility to fully and fairly reflect society and they continue to omit youth experiences and opinions, then it says something drastically fatal about the lack of respect we give young people as valuable members of the community. From the perspective of a youth media professional, incorporating youth voice and contribution to media is priority.
Finding Youth Voice in Print Media: The power of zines in a digital age
March 14, 2007
A very accessible medium, zines provide an alternative space from blogs and websites for youth to document their thoughts, feelings, and creativity in empowering, media driven ways.
Being a Media Mediator: Preliminary notes on practice
March 14, 2007
An atypical youth media position that is creative, open to possibilities, and links partners and media programs directly with youth in school.
Eradicating Stereotypes: Initiatives for Culturally Aware Leaders
March 14, 2007
An academic example of anti-racist approaches for inner-city teen empowerment that youth media professionals can learn from.
Girls Write Now: A Showcase of Intergenerational Learning
March 14, 2007
Through one-on-one mentoring, workshops, readings, and events, Girls Write Now provides a safe and supportive environment where girls can expand their natural talents, develop voice, and build confidence.
Reaching Out from the University Walls: The Power of Community Partnerships
February 15, 2007
An alternative, inexpensive, and more practical model of program evaluation that incorporates academia and community partnerships.
Teamwork, Leadership, and New(s) Coverage: Children’s PressLine’s shares Lessons of a High-Profile Summer Partnership
February 15, 2007
How a summer partnership at The Daily News brought teens, interns, and facilitators at Children's Press Line to another level of journalism, deadlines, teamwork and tackling challenges.
MySpace & YouTube
January 16, 2007
It was my mother who always said “sometimes you have to work within a corporate giant to plant the seed for change.” So, how does an innovative and web based site YouTube, now owned by the corporate giant Google, warrant...
The Ultimate Bookshelf for a Youth Media Educator
January 16, 2007
Over the past two years educators and administrators working in all mediums of youth media have shared with YMR the books, videos, and reports that have most informed and deepened their work. The following list is a compilation of these...
Cultivating a Field
January 16, 2007
Rebecca Renard, co-director of the Educational Video Center (EVC) documentary workshop, cues up a 10-minute tape of her class preparing to make a documentary. Then she presses "play." "Get into your group and brainstorm ideas," Rebecca says onscreen. Aureliano, also...
On Their Bookshelves
August 25, 2006
Recommended resources from Linda Johnson, John Gwinn, and Mindy Faber.
A Growth Opportunity
August 10, 2006
A Phillips Community Television staff member shares what they've learned about how youth media benefits teens, and how to magnify its impact.
Getting Discovered
July 27, 2006
Mindy Faber looks at what works and what doesn't in youth media distribution, and how the Internet can change everything.
Keeping the Youth Presses Rolling, with Help from the Newspaper Industry
May 24, 2006
Donna Myrow on L.A. Youth's partnership with the L.A. Times.
A Teen’s Editor in an Adult World
May 9, 2006
Doubleday editor Clarence Haynes explains how working in youth media jump-started his career.
Forget Hip-Hop—Get YCC
April 20, 2006
Young people connect to adults who respect youth culture. Just make sure to take out the commercial.
What They're Reading (and Watching)
March 30, 2006
Resources recommended by youth media experts Chistopher Schuepp, Dave Yanofsky, and Tony Streit.
Breaking the Social Documentary Mold
March 24, 2006
Dave Yanofsky of Uth TV explores how to build a culture of expectations that brings out the best in youth creativity.
A Dispatch from the Field
February 24, 2006
Six days in the life of the administrative director for the teen-produced newspaper L.A. Youth.
History Flash: The Birth of Youth-Made Radio
January 26, 2006
Ellin O'Leary and Jayme Burke explain how teens got on the air in the days before "youth media" existed.
What They’re Reading (and Talking About)
January 19, 2006
Youth media learning groups meet to look at the theory behind the practice. Here are some of the books that get them talking.
Cultivating a Field
November 16, 2005
Youth media practitioners teach better when they have regular opportunities to learn from each other. Steven Goodman explains how that can happen.
Laura Bush's Youth Work Tour
October 20, 2005
The First Lady’s effort to highlight effective programs highlights a
dilemma: There's little scientific evidence that they work.
What’s on Your Bookshelf?
August 5, 2005
Recommended reading from Bay Area educators recently featured in Youth Media Reporter.
The Slightly Sentimental Diary of a Rookie Media Teacher and His Trial-by-Fire Training
July 29, 2005
Cameras with teens behind them are dangerous weapons.
Taking Back Public Broadcasting
June 13, 2005
Television journalist Bill Moyers rallies the public media sector to stand its ground.
What’s on Your Bookshelf?
May 23, 2005
Recommended reading from youth media makers Ken Ikeda, Amy Weil, and Nora McCarthy.
Flipping the Script
May 18, 2005
Should youth-made media involve adult meddling? An editor considers challenging young people’s stories integral to her job.
The "Rescue" Dilemma
April 11, 2005
The winner of this year's Best Documentary Oscar raises ethical questions for those in the youth media field.
Do You Really Want to Be the Talk of the Town?
March 17, 2005
What happened when a cable-access youth channel had the lens turned on it by a reporter from the New Yorker.
