

How THE YOUNG
ARE helpING
local news media
survive

This edition of the Global Youth & News Media Prize journalism award spotlights successful youth collaborations that contribute to the survival of local news outlets.
Deadline is 16 June and how-to-enter details are here.
More than a dozen partners (listed below) are helping get the word out about the award and the eventual laureates and are providing a jury member.
Partners will use the results to strengthen their own programs that work toward making sure citizens everywhere get trustworthy local news that integrates youth.

Prize makes a habit of Valuing collaboration
This is not the first time the Global Youth & News Media prize has sought excellent cases of news media collaborating with youth for the betterment of a journalistic effort.
In 2018, our very first award went jointly to the United States digital edition of the London-based The Guardian and The Eagle Eye, a student news operation at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which was the site of a 2018 school shooting in which 17 people were killed. The Parkland students contributed live digital coverage to The Guardian US of an anti-gun violence demonstration in Washington, D.C. [Middle picture above]
A 2019 award went to a collaboration between a public then a private broadcaster and the country's journalism students to produce the Top Story investigative reporting reality show. [Picture at left above]
That same year, The Trace in the US was recognized publishing the 1200 portraits teenage journalists across the country wrote about the American children and youth killed by guns in a 12-month period. In the United Kingdom. [Picture above at right] The Student View project in the UK also received an award for producing 72 “pop-up” newsrooms in British schools in just three years..to cover local news.