Volume 4: Issue 5
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.
We believe it is important to listen to our grantees, to learn from their experiences so we are smarter about how to better support their work in ways beyond the grant.
The key to youth media investment is the word “long-term.”
Funders cannot simply leave media to “other” funders to support, just because your area of focus is poverty or health. Media is a component that greatly adds to and advances the solutions to all issue areas.
The youth-media field, as a whole, needs to strategically communicate its value and power on meeting the needs of young people.
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?
