The key to youth media investment is the word “long-term.”
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.
Branching out to the broader, local community requires new strategies, risk-taking and building partnerships outside the youth media field.
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
