The Youth Voice

After Ola Erstad's massive presentation about several important issues around media education, Veera Lehtinen and Jalmari Sarla had a presentation about The Youth Voice Editorial Board. The goals of the project (2006-2008) they introduced to us are:

• To change the image of the youth in media,
• To let youth take part in public discussion in diffentet media and to challenge the youth to have conversation with each other, experts, and politicians,
• To educate young people to make articles etc.

They have made tv programmes and newspaper articles. Check out some of their tv programmes:

www.yle.fi/free

We heard that unfortunately YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company) is cutting down the youth programmes which affects this project too.

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