Youth Media Resources

Affiliated with 90.5 WRTE-FM Chicago and the National Museum of Mexican Art, Radio Arte is a Latino-owned, bilingual, youth-driven public radio station that works to advance the voices of a multi-layered society. Through socially conscious journalism, media-literacy training and programming, Radio Arte strives to showcase music, issues, events, and community forums that are representative of Mexican/Latino culture.  It also provides professional skills and leadership training for youth and adults.

Novellas created by youth are featured at http://www.myspace.com/saludradioarte.

www.wrte.org

The mission of The Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program (AZYEP) is to develop leadership, multiculturalism and identity by providing training and opportunity to youth in community broadcasting.  The organization partners with KDNK Community Radio to broadcast weekly youth radio programs in English and Spanish and teach an accredited high school radio broadcasting class covering broadcasting, interviewing, public speaking and audio production.

www.radioevolution.org

Radio Rookies is a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world.

Since 1999, Radio Rookies has been conducting workshops across New York, in predominantly under-resourced neighborhoods, training young people to use words and sounds to tell true stories. Upon completion, the Rookies’ documentaries air on WNYC – usually during Morning Edition (5am to 9am weekdays on WNYC 93.9 FM, 6am to 10am on WNYC AM 820 and online at wnyc.org)

Radio Rookies typically runs one or two workshops a year, each lasting anywhere from four to eight months. During the workshops, Rookie Reporters learn everything about radio journalism: from how to conduct an interview and develop a story to how to craft a script and digitally edit their audio. There is no fee, and the program provides all the equipment and instruction needed.

http://www.wnyc.org/radiorookies/

Listen Up! is a NYC-based youth media network that connects young video producers and their allies to resources, support, and projects in order to develop the field and achieve an authentic youth voice in the mass media. Goals include (1)  provide connections, information, media tools, and services to young video producers and their allies, both inside and outside the network, (2) work with young producers to raise production quality and tell excellent stories, (3) implement and fund projects, (4) cultivate meaningful partnerships with like-minded organizations to develop and promote the field of youth media and (5) secure broadcast venues for youth produced video.

www.listenup.org

This is just like YouTube, except developed for schools.   Extensive involvement by academic community consortium groups.  Extensive index of links and resources.

www.schooltube.com

A division of Sound Portraits,  Youth Portraits seeks to give voice to young people who have been in prison; to give them the tools to tell their own stories, to teach then an important set of skills, and to empower them to speak up about the experiences that have made them who they are.  Teachers can use the Youth Portraits stories to help other young people explore their sense of self.  A 60-page study guide provides a prescriptive curriculum with lesson objectives and end-of-chapter tests and invites students to relate to the narrators and learn from their stories.

http://youthportraits.org/resources.php3

Study Guide

There is also a Recording and Interviewing Tutorial on this website.

Sound Portraits Productions is an independent production company dedicated to telling stories that bring neglected American voices to a national audience.   The website also offers ideas for incorporating radio/recording with education and learning.

www.soundportraits.org

A study guide for the related documentary teaches children and young adults about real-life circumstances.

Activities developed by students in a seminar on attentive listening and soundscape studies offered by the College of Education at the University of Oregon.

Lesson Plans

Content-rich site with downloadable teaching aides, content and insight on use of media for self-expression, bridging differences and working toward peace.

http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/media/explore_2762.html

Teen Reporter Handbook

NPR-based program encouraging creation of personal audio diaries with content, curricula and comprehensive links.

www.radiodiaries.org