Made by Youth

Appalshop
Young people in eastern Kentucky work with ami to learn how to use video cameras and audio equipment to document the unique traditions and complex issues of their mountain communities. Based in the community media model and artistic resources of appalshop, ami offers an intensive summer institute and year-round media literacy and production training with youth, teachers and community groups in central appalachia. Ami's goals are to develop the critical and creative skills of young people in eastern kentucky and to involve them in their communities and the world by making and sharing media.
http://www.appalshop.org/ami

BAMboozled
Find truth in youth at BAMboozled, a site written by teenagers for teenagers, and designed to combat, through new media, the negative stereotypes of youth created in the traditional media. Come here for great articles, factoids, movie reviews and to make your voice heard in their polls.
http://www.bamboozled.org/

Center for Media Literacy
Learn to use critical thinking skills in accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating media.
http://www.medialit.org/

Educational Video Center
The Educational Video Center (EVC) is a not-for-profit media arts center that teaches documentary video production and media analysis to youth, educators and community organizers. EVC's mission is dedicated to the creative and community-based use of video and multi-media as a means to develop the literacy, research, public speaking and work preparation skills of at-risk youth.
http://www.evc.org/

Educators for Social Responsibility
ESR's mission is to make teaching social responsibility a core practice in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills needed to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic, and just world.
http://www.esrnational.org/

Headliners
Headliners is a UK-wide news agency producing news, features and comment by young people for everyone. Through a unique learning through journalism programme, young people aged 8 to 19 research and write stories on issues that are important to them for publication in national and local newspapers, magazines, television and radio.
http://www.headliners.org

Keeping It Reel
Youth Leadership Institute has cultivated and created a unique Friday Night Live program in San Francisco where young people work in partnership with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to create an annual, independent, youth-made media festival. The Youth Media Showcase is a youth-led, intergenerational and interactive community celebration.
http://www.finc.org/Filmnotes/keepingitreel.html

LA Youth: Youth News Service
Essays and opinions written by teens in LA to go along with print newspaper intended to provide "free speech and creating for young people a journalism program that fosters critical thinking, writing skills, literacy and civic education." Topics include juvenile justice, homophobia, bereavement, entertainment and more.
http://www.layouth.com/

Listen Up!
Since January, 1999, Listen Up! has engaged more than 1,000 youth from diverse backgrounds in the researching, writing, production, editing and distribution of their own media.
http://www.listenup.org/

Media That Matters Film Festival
Watch youth made videos on the Media That Matters Film Festival.
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org

Native Networks Youth Resources
In 2001 the NMAI has launched the Native Networks Website to welcome you to the field of Native media throughout the Americas. The site provides information about new productions and media makers, current areas of special interest and accomplishments in the field.
http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/yellow/fymm.htm

NoodleHead Network
The NoodleHead Network produces, markets, and distributes educational videotapes created from a kid's eye view. Kids play an integral role in the creation of each tape-from script development, to acting, to editing. Then a group of "ex-kids"-writers, producers, and educators translate those ideas into unique videos that educate and inspire.
http://www.noodlehead.com/

Wiretap
A portal for other youth media groups. Rather than compete with other zines, they aim to broaden the audience for youth media in all of its unique and colorful forms by directing visitors to other youth media organizations.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretapmag/

YO! (Youth Outlook)
YO! is a newspaper written by and for Bay Area youth. It is distributed 10 times a year to schools all around the Bay Area. YO! includes essays, reporting pieces, cultural reviews and poetry. It's last page is writing by incarcerated youth. YO! Youth Outlook, 660 Market Street, #210, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 438-4755, fax (415) 438-4935.
http://www.youthoutlook.org/

Youth Channel
A channel that is programmed and governed by youth. That means youth get to make important decisions concerning the Youth Channel! We welcome work from all youth. The videos must be completely produced by youth.
http://www.youthchannel.org/

Youth Media Council
We're the same bold and visionary organization you knew as the Youth Media Council—but we've grown into our shoes as a unique national media strategy and action center with a sharpened approach to movement building for racial justice and youth rights.
http://www.centerformediajustice.org

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. In the process, they're exposed to a broad spectrum of media-related careers.
http://youthradio.org/