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  • We are Your Audiences and Your Future: Youth Speak in Africa

    We are Your Audiences and Your Future: Youth Speak in Africa

    by On April 13, 2007 0 Comment

    At the 5th World Summit on Media for Children in Africa, Youth media professionals and organizations offered workshops to help young people acquire various media skills. The 300 young people that attended took on visible leadership roles in advocating for access to, and participation in, mainstream media outlets.


Welcome to the Youth Media Reporter--an open access, peer-reviewed professional journal for scholars, practitioners and others who develop, organize, teach, study and support youth media practices and programs.

YMR includes research articles, descriptive case studies, brief reports from the field, and reviews of scholarship, technologies, conferences and other events related to the practices, pedagogies, and analysis of youth media.

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