Peabody Award-winning Youth Radio is an Oakland-based, youth-driven production company that serves as NPR’s Youth Desk. Our newsroom is known for its features, commentaries, apps, interactives, and investigative series by youth about youth, which run on national and local radio outlets as well as sites that include National Geographic, Medium, The Huffington Post, and The Atlantic. Since the early nineties, Youth Radio has produced on-the-ground elections reporting highlighting first-time voters and youth points of view. The organization takes an expansive approach to covering politics, both empowering teens as full-blown agents in civic life, and producing stories about the many ways that young people are connecting, advancing public understanding, and shaping the dialogue about the social issues and policies that matter most.
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Youth Radio on-the-ground reporting from the National Conventions
Young people from Youth Radio will provide on-the-ground reporting ...
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- Informational
Youth Radio: How to Write a Commentary
One of many resources for teachers at Youth Radio, this toolkit includes a series of activities for students to identify parts of a comm...
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- Curriculum
How Teens See The 2016 Election
In this radio segment from Youth Radio, NPR’s David Greene talks with Youth Radio journalists Desmond Meagley, Billy Cruz, and Kensha Secrease abou...
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- Informational
Youth Radio DIY Toolkit: How To Make An Infographic
This step-by-step tutorial guides learners through the process of identifying a body of data to visualize and then creating an infographic that will b...
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- Tools/Toolkit
Do Now: What Does Being Politically Active Mean to You? #DoNowPolitics
KQED’s Do Now for January 14, 2016 asked youth to think and respond to the prompt “What Does Being Politically Active Mean to You...
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- Activity