[net-gold] Audacious and Awesome New Book About Youth Radio

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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:02:23 -0600 (MDT)
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Audacious and Awesome New Book About Youth Radio

RT @creative_radio: RT @NFCB:

Audacious and awesome new book about Youth
Radio, our neighbors here in #Oakland!
Recommended read!

http://ow.ly/2woV1

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Anyone who wants to launch or sustain
a media project that engages young
people and amplifies their voices
should read Drop That Knowledge, a new
book about Youth Radio written by
Elisabeth Soep and Vivian Chavez. Lissa
Soep is a longtime Youth Radio staff
member who has developed the program's
training framework and curricula.
Vivian Chavez is a alumna of Youth News,
a forerunner to Youth Radio.

Youth Media International, as it is
currently re-branding, is one of the
oldest and most successful youth media
programs in the country. It's a
public media treasure. As founder
Ellin O'Leary writes in the epilogue,
"Our mandate is to prepare young
people to maintain and reinvent
journalism's best principles, so that
they can deploy today's new tools
and platforms to speak truth to power,
to cultivate credible soures, to
tell the story no one else is telling,
and to create art and report on
emerging trends and culture."

At Youth Radio, adolescents, teens
and young adults get the basics of
media production and much, much more:
media literacy, leadership training,
critical thinking, group process,
negotiation, peacemaking. They learn by
listening but mostly by doing. Once
they develop their wings, some of
these producers soar, experimenting
with nontraditional storytelling
techniques and providing fresh
perspectives on issues that hit closest
to home: public education, neighborhood
violence, teenage pregnancy, racial,
gender, national and sexual identity.

Drop That Knowledge explains the
guiding philosophy of Youth Radio - the
model of "converged literacy" which is
defined as "an ability to make and
understand boundary-crossing and
convention breaking texts...knowing how
to draw and leverage public interest in
the stories you want to tell...
[having the] imaginative resources to
claim and exercise your right to use
media to promote justice." At Youth
Radio, young people are respected as the
experts of their own experience, who not
only find their voice, but are empowered
to use it responsibly, meaningfully, and
effectively.

I'm a longtime admirer of Youth Radio.
I worked with some of its reporters
when I produced national news at Pacifica,
and I visited the group's Oakland
headquarters for the first time earlier
this year. Even so, I must admit that I
learned so much in the 200-plus pages of
this book that I didn't already know.

It?s fascinating to read between the
lines of some of Youth Radio?s most
visible and successful stories that
aired on NPR and PRI. How did these
pieces come together; what was the
role of the reporter versus the editor;
how did youth and adults collaborate;
what kind of dynamic ensued as harsh
truths are shared, or stereotypes are
reinforced or debunked in a 4-minute
audio essay that would carry the burden
of being The Voice of Youth on a
particular issue.

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[net-gold] Audacious and Awesome New Book About Youth Radio

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