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<br /> Youth Radio 3 <br /> In addition to Youth In Control every Friday night on Pacifica's KPFB, students now <br /> produce an ongoing weekly two-hour show, "Youth Radio on WILD 1 OT' on Number Two-rated <br /> Bay Area teen station, KYLD. Student commentaries air Sundays on the top news station KCBS- <br /> AM. Youth Radio students can also be seen occasionally on KRON-TV's "First Cut." Stories and <br /> commentaries for young and adult audiences can be heard on NPR, Marketplace, KQED, Latino <br /> USA, Pacifica National News and other outlets. Under a grant from the Corporation for Public <br /> Broadcasting (CPB), youth reporters have a wonderful opportunity to work closely with <br /> professional producers to create stories for National Public Radio. Youth Radio has recently begun <br /> distributing print and audio versions of its material on-line, reaching an expanding network of new <br /> audiences through the intemet. The response has been phenomenal, in terms of interest in the <br /> individual commentaries and in Youth Radio as a model for working with young people. <br /> Youth Voices topics range from critical issues such as teen pregnancy and drugs, to <br /> timeless concerns such as dating and being short. A sampling of recent topics includes the Million <br /> Man March, the predominance of liquor stores in African American neighborhoods, the importance <br /> of books, relations between Latinos and African Americans, does `gangsta' rap contribute to gun <br /> violence?, teens and technology, and "Back to School: A Plea to Adults to Discipline Us More." <br /> These stories coumer the inaccurate stereotype of this generation as ignorant, gun-toting aberrants. <br /> A recent production log of Youth Radio programming is attached. <br /> 3. Work Placement <br /> Since its inception, Youth Radio has had strong links with both schools and industry. <br /> Through the School-To-Work program, these links are being formalized into a system for preparing <br /> and training students for a successful transition into the work world. Youth Radio is establishing <br /> internships and mentorships with top broadcasting professionals, media outlets, and related <br /> businesses, including KRON-TV, KMEL, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Film <br /> Company, KQED, KDIA, KPFA, KBLX, Merritt College, the Asian American Journalists' <br /> Association, the Black Repertory Theater, and the Filipino American Arts Exposition, among <br /> others. Internships have been established in engineering, production, sales, news, and music <br /> production. Students are prepazed for these placements through individualized career counseling <br /> and classes in time management, resume writing, workplace norms, and more. Youth Radio can <br /> offer to the industry talented young people who are more highly skilled than many coming out of <br /> four yeaz college communications programs. <br /> This past year Youth Radio was funded as a community classroom through ROP (Regional <br /> Occupational Programs). This relationship has streamlined credit for Youth Radio students at the <br /> high school and higher education levels, and has assisted in our development of curricula that <br /> serves as a true bridge between the two. <br /> Students are also encouraged to pursue their formal academic education in every way <br /> possible, and to apply for awards and national programs. Two Youth Radio students were accepted <br /> last summer as the youngest members of the PRNDUPublic Radio News Directors mentorship <br /> Seminar on Reporting, held in Minneapolis. The National Federation of Community Broadcasters <br /> recently honored them with an award for their PRNDI productions on Civic Journalism. Another <br /> student was accepted, again as the youngest, in National Public Radio's ten-month <br /> <br />