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A sample of OSI-funded community based organizations that train and support young people as they produce and distribute their own journalistically based media. These diverse and dynamic youth media programs are located in communities across the country and work in a range of media including print, radio, video, and the Internet.

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Blunt Youth Radio Project
The Blunt Youth Radio Project produces a weekly, hour-long public affairs program that is produced and hosted entirely by local teenagers. Outreach programs include a radio-training program for incarcerated youth.

Downtown Community Television Center
DCTV is dedicated to the belief that expanding public access to the electronic media arts invigorates democracy. Through grassroots media education, DCTV teaches young people and emerging artists in low-income and minority communities to produce insightful and artistic television.

Educational Video Center
EVC is a community-based media center that teaches documentary video production and media analysis to youth, educators, and community organizers.

Global Action Project
Global Action Project, Inc. is a media arts organization that provides training in video production and new media technologies for youth both locally and internationally.

LA Youth
Published six times a year, LA Youth is a newspaper that addresses the needs and concerns of teens in the Los Angeles area.

MNN Youth Channel
MNN Youth Channel is an alternative to mass media that was created to provide equal access for New York City’s young people, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or social status. It strives to build confidence, establish role models, inform, educate, and entertain.

Pacific News Service
PNS, a network of media makers of diverse races, ages, and ethnic backgrounds, publishes several youth publications including YO! a monthly journal of life in the Bay Area, and The Beat Within, a publication of writings from those in juvenile halls.

Radio Arte
Radio Arte, a project of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, is an all-youth produced bilingual community radio station that trains and encourages youth to develop self-expression through the broadcast medium.

Radio Rookies
Radio Rookies is a WNYC program that trains young people to use words and sounds to tell true stories about themselves, their community, and the world. Through a series of workshops, each held in a new neighborhood, Radio Rookies gives teenagers the tools to become radio journalists.

Wide Angle Community Media
Wide Angle partners with community groups, providing them with media education and resources, to communicate their perspectives and amplify their voices.

Youth Communication
Youth Communication works with teenagers to develop their skills in reading, writing, thinking, and reflection, and to produce two magazines, Represent, for and by youth in foster care, and New Youth Connections, a general-interest teen magazine.

Youth Radio
Youth Radio promotes young people's intellectual, creative, and professional growth through training and access to media. Through hands-on practice, working relationships with industry professionals, and production of award-winning programming, Youth Radio students learn the basics of broadcasting.

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