How to Get Youth Interested in the News
I am just getting around to a Salon article about getting youth involved in reading the news. It’s a good article, in stating the issues, but comes up a little weak on solutions. Still I like the conversation he has with Rob Curley, the new-media director of the Naples Daily News in Naples, Florida. Curley says:
“I’m trying to build a Web site that you can’t imagine not being there. I think newspapers should be trying to build Web sites that are so good and so powerful that when real estate agents are talking to people who want to move there, they’ll talk about the newspaper just like they’d talk about good schools or a nice park.”
And indeed the website is very good for a local site. It is filled with important news and fun stuff, using all the multi-media tools in the kit.
If you want to know more about getting youth involved in reading the news, then read what Kendra Hurley, the editor, Youth Media, Reporter, Ymreporter.com, told our A Wake Up conference; she said in part:
“Teens really want news that’s similar to citizen journalism. They don’t want it coming from a God-like source, they don’t want it sounding like the Gospel, they want it form a peer, they want it with opinion, they want it with analysis, and they want it to somehow be able to link it to who they are personally.”
Tags: salon, Newspapers, journalism, youth, community journalism
