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Being the Media

9/9/2016

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by Onelia Hawa
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Ryan Perry
Early in the summer on the 13th floor of Capital Towers, 20 high-school students gathered in a space that overlooked the city skyline for a pizza social to learn more about an intensive, hands-on summer project that teaches reporting, podcast and videography skills to teenagers from the Jackson metro area. Students ate pizza with friends and relatives who came in to support them, and waited anxiously to hear what the next two months would mean for them.


The Mississippi Youth Media Project brings young people, age 14 to 19, together to learn how to report on their community and tell their own stories, with a focus on juvenile justice. Supported in part by the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance (kfla.org), the project's nonprofit fiscal agent, YMP is a volunteer project of Donna Ladd—BOOM editor-in-chief—and four other Kellogg fellows.

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