New Youth Media Project Launches in Denver, Colorado
September 2, 2009 by Sarah Hughes
Colorado Youth News
Colorado Youth News (CYN) is a new community engagement project for Colorado teenagers. CYN teaches high school students how to produce radio stories about their generation (Generation Z) , their schools, and their neighborhoods.
a program participant tests the microphone
In the course of reporting and storytelling, students learn how to engage the public in issues that are important to young people, and how to be more effective communicators about these issues. These are critical civic advocacy skills that students can take with them into future community-based ventures. CYN is hosted this year by the Denver Public Schools’ Contemporary Learning Academy, a small, alternative high school that gives students a second chance to earn their high school diploma.
About CYN and its Board
CYN is a project of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center and fall under the center’s 501(c)(3) status. CYN’s Board of Advisors includes Andrea Dukakis, a reporter and producer with Colorado Public Radio, Kate Culligan, former marketing of Denver Clear Channel and Jeff Miller, an independent education and youth consultant and a former policy analyst at the Education Commission of States- National Center for Learning and Citizenship.
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About the Author: Sarah Hughes is the Project Manager for CYN. She has worked with youth for over a decade in a variety of ways; as a youth media producer, as a bilingual teacher, and as a reporter on the education, immigration and family issues beat. Hughes is a freelance journalist with nearly a decade experience in local public radio. She is also the founding director of “Youth Voices” a radio workshop based at WAMU, in Washington DC.
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- Colorado Youth News
- Colorado Nonprofit Development Center
- Where is Denver, CO?
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