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HarlemLive
(New York, NY) - A journalism, technology and
leadership program that teaches students ages 13 to 21 how to run an online
newspaper. The publication includes news articles, investigative stories,
opinion pieces, personal essays, poetry, photography and video
documentaries. Students organize events, conduct workshops and sit on
panels, increasing their networking and public speaking abilities.
Uth TV
(San Francisco, CA) - Youth-created media
program that offers two television programs on UPN in the Bay Area. Uth TV
is a community of young people who express themselves through video, music,
spoken word, comedy, fashion and more.
YO! (Youth Outlook)
(San Francisco, CA) -
A monthly newspaper by and about
young people, which syndicates articles to newspapers across the U.S. YO!
connects young people with each other and gives adults a window into the
constantly changing cultures of youth. YO! trains writers in skills required
for interviewing, reporting and fiction writing as well as photography,
computers and radio production.
Paper Tiger Television
(New York, NY) - PTTV believes that increasing public awareness of the negative influence of mass media and involving people in the process of making media is mandatory for our long term goal of information equity.
Youth Voice Raleigh
(Raleigh, North CA) - An organization based on
the principle that kids are people too. Realizing that adults control most
of the mainstream media, we are committed to change that. By speaking up in
the political arena, producing radio shows, helping kids to get their music
recorded and promoted, publishing a 'zine, and giving kids a place to voice
their opinions and be heard; we are creating a new medium, one in which
diversity, quality, and truth are the emphases, rather than money.
Just Think
(San Francisco,
CA) - Teaches young people to understand the
words and images in media, and think for themselves.
AnimAction
(Hollywood, CA) -
Giving young people the opportunity to
experience the joys of collaboration and creativity through animation
production. Although based in the Hollywood Entertainment District, AnimAction
has trained thousands of kids throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
As part of UNICEF's International Animation Consortium for Child's Rights, our
kids' work is distributed worldwide.
WRTE RADIO ARTE
(Chicago, IL) -
The Yollocalli Youth Museum, a youth initiative of the Mexican Fine Arts Center
Museum, is an arts education and career training program, which educates
students in different artistic mediums while introducing them to diverse
professions in the arts. Yollocalli provides youth between the ages of 14 and 19
the opportunity to explore their interests in art and uncover
their hidden talents through a variety of artistic experiences.
Plugged
In
(East Palo Alto, CA) -
A non-profit organization
dedicated to bringing the tremendous technological resources available in
Silicon Valley to low-income youth and families. Plugged In provides access, training and support for computers
and the Internet to the entire community.
Street Level Youth Media
(Chicago, IL) - Educates youth about media issues and creation, and
features youth-created projects and resources.
Reel Grrls
(Seattle, WA) -
A unique
after-school media & technology training program that empowers girls to critique
media images and to gain media technology skills in a safe, open environment,
mentored by a network of multi-cultural women media professionals.
Educational
Video Center
(New York, NY) - A community-based media organization that teaches documentary video production
and media analysis
to youth, educators and community organizers. Since 1984, EVC has been a leader
in the field of media education by bringing video technologies into schools and
student learning into the community.
Global Action Project, Inc.
(New York, NY) -
An educational organization that develops youth leaders through video production and peer education, and promotes the inclusion of diverse youth voices on critical local and global issues.
AppalShop-The
Appalachian Media Institute
(Eastern Kentucky) - Young people work with ami to learn how to use video
cameras and audio equipment to document the unique traditions and complex
issues of their mountain communities.
Community Art Center’s Teen Media Program
(Cambridge,
MA) - A 30-year history of serving youth living in public housing developments
by engaging them in exploring their identities and creative
talents through processes of critical thinking, problem solving
and self-expression.
Youth Impact
(El Paso,
TX) - A youth empowerment and training program to give high
school and college youth an opportunity to develop professional
and technical skills in radio broadcast, sound recording, news
gathering, and website development.
The New Orleans Video Access Center
(New Orleans,
LA) - Providing youth media training programs since 1972
for inner-city African American youth.
Blunt Youth Radio
(Portland, ME) - Blunt members receive free training to teach them
what they need to know to produce a creative radio program. The skills
they learn include: interviewing, how to plan and host a live show,
reporting and writing for radio, engineering a radio broadcast, and
studio production. Blunt members learn to use professional equipment
that is constantly updated to keep pace with the digital age. The
Blunt/Youth Radio Project produces a weekly call-in public affairs
radio show for teens.
Oakland Youth Media
Young Media Australia
(Australia) - YMA exists
to promote a quality media environment for Australian children and to
raise community awareness of the needs of children and young people in
relation to print, electronic and screen based media.
KBOO Youth Collective
(Portland, OR) - Covers a wide range of issues affecting American
youth, including unconventional schools, leaving for college, the September
11th crisis, punishment, spirituality, activism, war, hip hop, school
funding, and local current events. We also run another great youth show,
Youth Randomonium, which is a showcase for Portland's incredible local youth
talent.
Youth Channel
(Manhattan, NY) - An alternative to mass media created to provide equal access to all young people, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or social status. The Youth Channel is governed and programmed by youth who want to make a difference.
Just Think
(San Francisco, CA) - Teaches young people to
understand the words and images in media, and to think for themselves. Their
website features examples of youth-produced informational media about topics
ranging from hip-hop music to consumer rights.
Youth
Media Databases/Collectives/Advocacy Organizations/Technical
Assistance Providers
Listen
Up!
Listen Up! is a youth
media network that connects young video producers and their allies
to resources, support, and projects with the goals of developing the
field and achieving an authentic youth voice in the mass media.
Youth Media Council
(San Francisco) - A youth
organizing, leadership development, media capacity-building and
watchdog project dedicated to developing youth-led strategies for
media justice.
YMDi (Youth Media Distribution)
Provides information and
tools that are essential to increasing the visibility of youth made
media.
Children & Youth Producing Media
This page is devoted to children and teens as media producers. Included are links to a diversity of sites where young people are producing print and multimedia products.
Young Peoples' Media Network
United Nations Youth Media Program
WireTap
"youth in pursuit of the dirty truth" Wiretap is an independent information source for socially
conscious youth. packed with articles and information about youth rights and activism affecting young people nationwide.
The National Youth Media Access Project
NYMAP is an innovative partnership among
public access centers from across the country committed to expanding
services to young people. Initiated by the MNN Youth Channel,
Resources
Youth Media Publishers
Names, links, and
addresses to more than 200 publishers around the world that
publish youth-written poetry, stories, research, and more.
Youth Media Resources
A variety of free and fee
tools for young people to create their own websites, newspapers, and
other media.
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