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SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES: A Youth Assessment of Local News Coverage
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© 2002
Conducted by Bay Area high school students, Speaking for Ourselves examines coverage of youth on local Fox-affiliate KTVU Channel 2. The report present...

document BuildAPeoplesStation.pdf
IS KMEL THE PEOPLE'S STATION? A Community Assessment of 106.1 KMEL
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© 2002
How does the most listened to hip-hop/R&B station in the Bay Area present our vibrant hip-hop community and youth efforts for social change? This study cond...

document YMC-SJMercReport05.pdf
LOOKING DEEPER: Visibility and Invisibility of Youth, Policy and Race in San Jose Mercury News
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©2005
How does one of the Bay Area's leading newspapers cover issues important to youth and their communities? YMC worked with San Francisco's Youth Justice Project to...

document Reframing-Power.pdf
REFRAMING POWER: An Evaluation of the Youth Media Council's First Three Years
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© 2006
Reframing Power takes a look at the media and social conditions that led to YMC's formation, and the strategies YMC tested in creating an innovative model for s...

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COMMUNICATING FOR HEALTH JUSTICE: A Communications Strategy Curriculum for Advancing Health Issues
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© 2007

Communicating for Health Justice is a curriculum designed to help health advocates fight for a more equitable health system. We now know that the healthiest na...

document Appalachian & FSC convening.pdf
MEDIA JUSTICE or MEDIA CONTROL: Curriculum from a Conference organized by the Appalachian Community Fund
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© 2007

“Media is not the issue. Justice is the issue. Media is the infrastructure for how we communicate about the issue of justice. We need to be able to use t...

document Hawaii MJ convening.pdf
Hawai‘i People’s Fund: Media Justice Initiative 2007-2008
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© 2007

Among the many contradictions in Hawai‘i,often called paradise by outsiders, is our media landscape. In a geographically small area, community involvemen...

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COMMUNICATE JUSTICE 101: PREVIEW!
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© 2007

We finally did it!  Our five years of conducting communications for grassroots organizing campaigns is captured in this comprehensive how-to toolkit, Com...

document Preview_Displacing_the_Dream.pdf
DISPLACING THE DREAM: Preview!
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Displacing the Dream: A report on Bay Area newspaper coverage of development and gentrification

The YMC has spent much of this year analyzing 3 months of coverage in ...

document ncmr ford fund report back (partial).pdf
NCMR Ford Fund Report back
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In June 2008, a cohort of 20 grassroots organizers and policy advocates working for racial and economic justice attended the National Conference on Media Reform.  Their reflec...