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Youth-led media

Youth-Led media is any effort created, planned, implemented, and reflected upon by young people in the form of media, i.e. video, newspapers, websites, etc. These efforts form the basis of an international movement born the in early 1970s in Michigan, USA by a youth-led publishing organizations called Youth Liberation (http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2000/47/mosher.html) (not to be confused with the current movement by the same name). This organization disbanded by 1974, with one of its founders forming the New York City-based Youth Communications, a youth-led media program for young people in foster care. Another organization in the early movement was Children's Express, which operates programs around the world.

In the early 1990s this movement gained new expression in the United States in response to growing media bias against youth, i.e. the hyper-sensationalization of youth violence ala "superpredators", and continued to grow due to the "Columbine" shootings. This movement features hundreds of individuals and organizations working across the United States to promote the roles of young people in society and in the media.

Examples

• Youth-Created Media List (http://www.freechild.org/youthmedia.htm)
• Listen Up! (http://www.pbs.org/merrow/listenup/)
• Youth Media Council (http://www.youthmediacouncil.org/)
• Youth Media Distribution (http://ymdi.org/)
• Young Peoples' Media Network (http://www.ypmn.blogspot.com/)
• United Nations Youth Media Program (http://www.unicef.org/magic/)
• Youth Media Reporter (http://www.ymreporter.org/)
• Youth News Publishers (http://www.freechild.org/national_media_outlets.htm)
• Youth Out Loud! (http://www.yealliance.org/)