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This is Our Generation: Sierra Leonean Youth Views through Film
February 1, 2011
It’s clear that with cameras in hand, the youth of Sierra Leone have already begun writing a new story for themselves and for their country.
Setting a Youth Media Precedent
February 1, 2011
When I was 13, my life was forever changed through a youth journalism program in my hometown of Indianapolis, IN—15 years later, I’ve started my own.
Five Trends in Youth Media
October 27, 2010
The McCormick Foundation journalism program staff reflects on five emerging trends in the youth media field, offering a look into innovative journalism and news literacy models.
Investing in Futures: The Need for Youth Media Funding
October 27, 2010
As a filmmaker, arts administrator, and observer of our culture, I find myself asking: Why would anyone with knowledge of the 21st century workforce and its need for critical thinking not put media education at the forefront of educational strategy?
Information Quality, Youth, and Media: A Research Update
August 30, 2010
This article, from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative, discusses a new literature review in the making, where one of the goals is to understand how the challenges that youth face are modulated by variables such as immersion in digital media, access, and cognitive development.
Global Kids uCreate Project: Extending Collaborative Learning to Incarcerated Youth in Two Cities
August 30, 2010
This article describes a pilot project that linked youth detention centers with community libraries in two cities, to work specifically with incarcerated youth and new learning technologies.
When You Can’t Bring Your Classroom to the World, Bring the World into Your Classroom
August 30, 2010
For educators aiming to teach global perspectives, we teach students in the U.S. and the West Bank to use current e-technologies so they can easily craft and share their personal stories, whether through iMovie, blogging, online discussion boards, or some other tech-based means of communication, stressing the importance of individual experience and storytelling.
Youth Connected: Technology and Journalism Shape World Views
August 30, 2010
Creating an appetite for quality international news among the next generation is critical to fostering a healthy media landscape in the future.
Fuzzy Logic: Why Students Need News and Information Literacy Skills
June 24, 2010
A news librarian explains the importance of news and information literacy for students and faculty alike.
Understanding News Literacy: A Youth Media Perspective
June 24, 2010
This issue of Youth Media Reporter unpacks this field of news literacy for a youth media audience, bringing a fresh perspective to youth media practice.
Can a Democracy Survive without Reliable Information?
June 24, 2010
People who are citizens in an information age have got to learn to think like journalists.
News Literacy: A News Lens for Youth Media
June 24, 2010
Youth media practitioners must encourage students to identify “real” news and information. News literacy as a way to identify and build upon a skill set that youth media programs already aim to build in young people.
Media and News Literacy in Seattle
June 24, 2010
Something is missing from our public school curriculum when a high school senior does not know what a journalist does, or why it is important to think about where his or her information is coming from.
The Urban Journalism workshop Program: A Case Study
June 24, 2010
For youth media educators, the UJW is a case study that helps present how accuracy is the most important element of news and that correction is necessary to inaccuracy.
News Literacy in High School and Middle Grades: Why We Need it Now More than Ever Before
June 24, 2010
All educators have the means to be news literacy instructors. Critical thinking is an end teachers hope to achieve, regardless of content area.
Teaching Journalism and News Literacy
June 24, 2010
A high school teacher's experience working with an active student newspaper crew at Palo Alto.
Art Therapy: A Critical Youth Media Approach
April 14, 2010
A therapeutic approach to personal storytelling and the mediated process of youth media.
Youth Media Facilitation: An Approach for Organizational Learning
April 14, 2010
By sharing new technical expertise, youth media educators can play a unique role in nurturing both youth participation and organizational capacity through collaborative facilitation.
Media and Expression: An Approach for Helping Girls Process Trauma
April 14, 2010
When we give girls the tools they need to share their stories, they diversify media coverage and offer valuable input to global dialogue.
Health-Related Teen Media Partnerships
February 15, 2010
Media, in partnership with health providers, can make a difference in the local community, benefiting young people and increasing the overall effectiveness of the field.
Uniting a Neighborhood: Youth Media as a University-to-Community Bridge
February 15, 2010
A new media education program bridges resources between urban neighborhoods and higher education institutional neighbors, allowing youth to explore identity through art experiences.
Building the Youth Media Arts Community in Boston: A History of RYMAEC
February 15, 2010
With many divergent philosophies, funding priorities, field-professionalizing efforts and screening venues in the greater Boston-area, it has been a challenge to identify the core community of youth media practitioners.
Do It Your Damn Self! National Youth Video and Film Festival
February 15, 2010
Raising youth voices, particularly those who have been marginalized by poverty, language, culture or geography, is realized in the convergence of youth who can come together through their filmmaking—learning, growing and reshaping the world around them by participating in it.
Graphic Design: A Youth Media Strategy
February 15, 2010
Graphic design brings play and experimentation to the digital studio while supporting teens to build community and push their artistic boundaries.
Youth Media: A Professional Development Strategy
February 15, 2010
Integrating professional development into your program will help it run more efficiently, will give your students valuable transferable skills and ultimately result in higher quality content.
Using Media Literacy to Combat Racism
February 15, 2010
While the issues of race and culture are real and complex, we can address these issues in simple ways.
Youth Media in the Aftermath of Disaster
December 14, 2009
How established media organizations can support emerging youth media initiatives in the aftermath of disaster.
Developing Voice in New Orleans: The City with the Highest Incarceration Rate in the U.S.
December 14, 2009
Youth media educators must continue to develop and enhance projects to ensure that youth—particularly those impacted by incarceration—have opportunities to develop their voices in safe and rigorous settings.
Youth Media as Education Reform
December 14, 2009
There is very little in the way of activism, education reform and civic engagement for middle school-aged students. Rethink works to change that.
Traditional and Youth Media Education: Collaborating and Capitalizing on Digital Storytelling
October 13, 2009
Left: John Braman, Right: Judy Goldberg From elementary schools to universities, educators are increasingly incorporating digital storytelling into the curriculum. This trend is good news, especially in New Mexico, where traditional approaches often fail due to diverse learning styles,...
Youth Media Curriculum for Justice
October 13, 2009
Left: Jessica Collins, Right: Andrea Quijada Youth media encompasses diverse realities of how communities live, work, play, and communicate. For example, youth media work in New Mexico differs from youth media work in many other regions in the U.S....
Social Justice Radio: A Strategy for Long-term Change
October 13, 2009
With intentional project design that is based on a social justice framework, youth media can sow the seeds of equity and facilitate long-term change in our communities.
Segregation Does Not End at the Lunch Counter
October 13, 2009
The social segregation that niche marketing and commercial media reinforce can be combated through community and media justice.
Youth Inclusion & Media Justice
October 13, 2009
New youth media must put all of its efforts to eradicate the kind of binary thinking in this country that targets and categorizes people based on race, the language they speak, and their identities.
Access, Platforms & Partnerships: The Media Arts Collaborative Charter School
October 12, 2009
The Media Arts Collaborative Charter School (MACCS) in New Mexico provides an interesting case study for some of the perennial issues facing the youth media field today. Our school is built entirely around young people’s access to media and...
The Power and Impact of Gender-Specific Media Literacy
August 17, 2009
It is up to the field as a whole to help students critique media, avoid stereotypes, and act out new identities.
Youth Journalism: Connecting Lives with Public Policies
August 14, 2009
In the youth media field especially, the tools and practices of journalism mirror the fundamental concept of story-telling, engagement and local political change.
Integrating Elements: Media Arts Education and Experimental Media
August 14, 2009
The youth media field can learn from artists and media art educators that apply a creative, inventive, and experimental aspect to teen media makers.
The Youth Video Exchange Network: A One-Stop-Shop for Youth Media
August 14, 2009
If the aim of youth media is to have youth voice heard and recognized by an audience, the Youth Video Exchange Network is the pipeline for the field to increase our efforts and those of the young people we serve.
J-Schools, High Schools, and Youth Media: Bringing Journalism Back into the Classroom
August 14, 2009
Partnerships between high schools, universities, and youth media educators can encourage young Somali youth in the Twin Cities—who have been marginalized by news media—to create better news and media vehicles that accurately represent their perspectives and local communities.
Highlighting Girls in Youth Media
August 14, 2009
As practitioners in youth media, we have the opportunity to support the long-term development of girls.
Reaching and Engaging Drop Out Youth
June 12, 2009
A partnership between youth media and schools will help decrease the 42% of teens that drop out of high school or do not graduate on time.
Youth Media against Violence
June 12, 2009
Young people must be given a space to articulate violence and use media tools to dismantle violence, its roots and causes, piece by piece.
The Chicago Youth Voices Network: A Tale of Collective Action
June 12, 2009
McCormick’s senior program officer and a local practitioner provide an overview on the Chicago Youth Voices Network--a collective of youth media grantees—sparking suggestions to the field.
Marketing and Advertising Youth Media: A Shift in Thinking
June 12, 2009
Rather than scramble for shrinking dollars and failing partnerships, we need to build partnerships that generate more dollars and have a bigger effect on both young people and our field.
Practicing Journalism, Preserving History
June 12, 2009
An essay on the importance of youth journalism in changing times.
A Change in Focus: Youth Media Shapes Community
June 12, 2009
Youth media must incorporate a broader, more holistic vision of our students’ lives—one that incorporates family and community resources—into our program structure and goals.
In Search of Safe Passage
June 12, 2009
We need to bridge the gap between parents and youth media.
Answering the Call: Youth Media and the Cell Phone
April 15, 2009
The field needs to capitalize on the cell phone as a tool to distribute, share, and produce youth media content across local cities, the nation, and around the globe.
Youth Generated Media on Local TV
April 15, 2009
Young adults rarely have an outlet to share their ideas, values, and stories in the media. The Peoples Channel wants to change that, starting with the TV.
Putting the Pieces Back Together: Youth Media in a Fractured City
April 15, 2009
Youth media and diversity training afford youth to break down social barriers, know each other as real and whole people, and dissect issues such as power, privilege, inclusion and exclusion.
Funding the Nascent Field of Youth Media
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.
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
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
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.
Not Too Young to Watch, Not Too Young to Make
December 11, 2008
Engaging children with video and play develops their ability to generate, critique and participate in media as young adults.
Building the Local Youth Media Community
December 11, 2008
Branching out to the broader, local community requires new strategies, risk-taking and building partnerships outside the youth media field.
Best Practices Help Youth Media Educators Exercise the Right to Fair Use
December 11, 2008
After more than a year of researching best practices in fair use for media literacy educators, new resources and tools to better understand copyright law enable youth media educators to employ copyrighted materials under the doctrine of fair use.
We Welcome You to Invite Us to the Field
December 11, 2008
Youth media organizations may be overlooking the power and potential of the college student mentor/volunteer in the field.
Creating Rooms of Our Own: Women Writers at Work at Girls Write Now
December 11, 2008
Youth media programs are uniquely situated to offer girls the opportunity to thrive as creative and flexible thinkers, and in so doing train them to be our future leaders.
Like a Bell that Calls: Participatory Youth Radio in Ethiopia
December 11, 2008
It is vital in countries like Ethiopia for young people to develop relationships with media gatekeepers in order to gain greater access to larger platforms.
Youth on the Trail
October 27, 2008
Youth benefit from a partnership between What Kids Can Do and Y-Press, leading them to cover the Conventions and the 2008 Election.
Election Year: How Can Youth Walk the Walk?
October 27, 2008
From a political journalism perspective, the youth media around the 2008 election demonstrates a shift in both civic engagement and the media.
Liberian (or Non-American) Youth Perspectives on the U.S. Presidential Elections
October 27, 2008
Since the outcome of the U.S. Presidential elections has such an impact on the rest of the world, shouldn't global youth voices be heard and weigh in on the vote?
Youth Media, Youth Voice & Youth in Politics
October 27, 2008
27-year-old Tony Payton, the youngest representative of the Pennsylvania State House, talks about his journey into politics and the important role of young people as they inform and become decision makers using new media.
Obamania: A Reflection on New Media Tactics Drawing Youth to the Voting Booth
October 27, 2008
Sen. Obama’s campaign is an interesting reflection point for youth media practitioners to amplify and appreciate the lessons we have learned on how to use new media and technology tools to attract younger people and to get them engaged in creating a better world through media literacy and engagment.
Youthtopias: Towards a New Paradigm of Critical Youth Studies
August 15, 2008
by A.A. Akom and S. Ginwright, San Franscisco State University, and J. Cammarota, University of Arizona
Young People, New Media, and Visual Design: An Exploratory Study
August 15, 2008
by Sanjay Asthana, Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State University
Challenging the Silences and Omissions of Dominant Media: Youth-led Media Collectives in Colombia
August 15, 2008
by Diana Coryat, Global Action Project
Creating Empowering Environments in Youth Media Organizations
August 15, 2008
by Renee Hobbs, Ed.D. and Jiwon Yoon, Ph.D. candidate, Temple University
Making Meaning of Media Education: Professional Development among Youth Media Practitioners
August 15, 2008
by Sara Keenan, M.A., with contributions by JoEllen Fisherkeller, Ph.D.
Shaping the Digital Pen: Media Literacy, Youth Culture, and MySpace
August 15, 2008
by David Kirkland, New York University
Examining the Intersections of Popular Culture and Youth Radio After-School
August 15, 2008
by Dana Walker, University of Northern Colorado
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.
