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American Society of Newspaper Editors
Q: What do you think can be done to help young people become more media literate?
A: First, show them what can happen if they rely on one medium or outlet exclusively. This is often eye opening, just as showing someone the difference between whitehouse.gov and whitehouse.com is eye-opening when conducting Web searches — consider the source. But also key is to include them in the process of creating news. If they are part of a school newspaper, for example, even if they don't become journalists, they are more likely to understand the issues journalists face. (Read More)
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Feedback Media Review
Q: What do you see as the obstacles young producers of media face in gaining access to television, film, video and print?
A: ... The main problem is that they're all owned and run by older people who are probably a bit scared of letting young producers in. Professional standards need to be maintained, so age and experience are preferred (even though young producers may have professional standards). Also, young producers may not be socialized into the culture of commercial media — their voices may be radical — and so they are overlooked ... If they get any access to mainstream media, it's usually in a setting that is highly controlled by 'the professionals' and is highly homogenized. (Read More)
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International Child Art Foundation
Q: What is the mission of your organization?
A: The International Child Art Foundation (ICAF), [is] a Washington, D.C., based 501©(3) nonprofit organization that nurtures, develops and celebrates children's creativity and imagination through art; builds their self-esteem and confidence through exhibiting and publishing their artistic expressions; and unites them by the universal language of art at its international festivals and through the Internet. (Read More)
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Just Think Foundation
Q: What age, class and racial, religious and ethnic groups does your organization work with?
A: ... For many schools there are no media education programs available and little or no access to the technology we provide when we teach our programs. As a result many of the students we currently teach are often academically disadvantaged, from lower- to low-income families who have little or no access to technology within the public schools they attend. This also applies to the students we have taught in our international programs. (Of the over 200 students who completed our core media arts-education programs in the United States last year, 35 percent were African-American, 25 percent Latino, 20 percent Asian-American, 10 percent Caucasian and 10 percent other ethnic groups). (Read More)
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Listen Up!
Q: What made you originally want to start working with young people?
A: ... The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in teenagers incarcerated — even on death row. Just as it is wrong to assume that adolescents themselves are the problem, it's wrong to think that the solution is to punish, restrict or refuse to support youth. We are constantly searching for the mythical silver bullet that will wipe away our problems in one clean sweep. However, despite America's love for instant solutions, we will not find them by silencing and locking away our young people.
There are clear alternatives to engage youth to become full participants in a civil society and at that same time help adults view youth as an asset and not a liability. Listen Up! is one such solution. (Read More)
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MediaRights.org
Q: How would children and young people make contact with your organization?
A: MediaRights.org publishes articles online about youth media and activism and we are creating an online Youth Workshop to help young media activists make videos, find each other, and share their experiences. In our Newsstand we have an article titled "The Right To Be Seen And Heard: Youth Media Distribution" which you can find here. (Read More)
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PhotoVoice
Q: What are your organization's successes working with young media producers?
A: Enabling some of the young people we work with not only to have their work taken seriously by both local and international audiences but also to earn an income for their work, which in turn allows them to become independent. We have seen some of the young people we work with grow in confidence as photography creates something new for them, alleviating some of the hardships in their lives. (Read More)
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WNYC Radio — Radio Rookies
Q: What are the main facilities, resources and services you make available to young people interested in working in media?
A: ... Radio Rookies Affiliates with community centers in different neighborhoods and teaches up to six students per session. Students learn how to use tape recorders and how to edit using Pro Tools digital editing. They learn how to record sounds professionally and how to write a script. After the workshops they come to WNYC to record their narration in a studio at the station. They are guided through the whole process, learning about every aspect of radio journalism, from conceiving a story to putting it together. (Read More)
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ADDITIONAL AFFILIATES WORKING WITH YOUTH
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Alternatives: Action and Communication Network for International Development
Alternatives is offering a series of exciting and innovative internships for young people interested in community organizations, international solidarity and building links with the developing world. Design Web sites for community organizations in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America; experience the challenges faced by human rights groups, women's organizations and other sectors of civil society in developing countries. (Home Page)
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Childnet International
Above all, Childnet is positive about the opportunities for children that the Internet affords, and we have seen first hand, through our Childnet Awards program and Launchsite directory, how the medium allows children the opportunity to create, connect and discover. (Home Page)
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Cyber-times.org
Cyber-times.org is a forum for the exchange of information and the promotion of understanding across international boundaries. It links journalism training institutions throughout the world in a network of cooperative activity on a platform of equitable access. (Home Page)
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Harlemlive.org
Harlem's Internet Publication is written, created, presented and represented by teens in Harlem and throughout New York City. HarlemLive broadens youth's view of the world using technology and journalism while fostering understanding through diversity. By using emerging technologies, we cover events, people and issues throughout Harlem, learning as young men and women the processes of journalism, Web creation, professional growth and so much more. (Home Page)
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Katha
Katha works with equal dedication and commitment through well-defined programs in the areas of education — in the primary to higher education continuum within both formal and non-formal systems, and in publishing — in the literacy and literature spectrum. The education of working children and children from non-literate families is a major concern of Katha. (Home Page)
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Paper Tiger Television
Since 1981, Paper Tiger Television has appeared across the country on public-access cable channels, the noncommercial, uncensored channels available for public use. A volunteer collective of media producers, educators and activists produces the series. (Home Page)
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Pop Sustainability
ThinkPop.org is an initiative of Pop Sustainability, a non-profit organization promoting more sustainable lifestyles through the tools of popular culture — mass media and the arts. ThinkPop is both the medium and the message. It represents what we want to say and hear duplicated infinitely through the rapid-fire virtual world. It is the beginning of a global movement towards creative solutions to exclusion, poverty, environmental degradation, social injustice and repression. (Home Page)
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United Nations Children's Fund
A new project of UNICEF, Voices of Youth is a vibrant, interactive site for debate by young people of such issues as child labor, children and war, child rights and other issues. Hear what other young people are saying and add your opinion! (Home Page)
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Youth at the Millennium — G21
Group 21 is a non-governmental project whose main aim is to educate and empower young people for the coming century. The men and women of the group are volunteers of varying ages and nationalities, most of who are associated with universities and educational institutions. (Home Page)
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