Here is your source for recent press coverage of Youth Radio. If you have specific press-related questions, contact Jabari Gray at 510.251.1101 ext. 318 or by email at jabari@youthradio.org.
2013
Rockridge Patch: Former City Council Candidate Richard Raya Joins Youth Radio: February 2013
The Innovation Intake: The Power of the Voice: May 2013
2012
National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards: Youth Radio Honored At White House: A Young Artists's Reflection: January 2013
PBS Newshour Extra: Honored at the White House: Art Programs Celebrated: December 2012
Huffington Post San Francisco: Youth Radio Wins National Arts Award, Honored at White House By Michelle Obama: Novemember 20, 2012
Current: First Lady Presents National Arts and Humanities Award to Youth Radio: November 20, 2012
Oakland Tribune: Oakland's Youth Radio Wins Prestigious Arts Award from Michelle Obama: Novemeber 19, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle Online: First Lady Honors 2 Bay Area Arts Organizations at White House: November 19, 2012
NBC Bay Area: White House Awards Oakland Youth Radio Today: Novemeber 19, 2012
KTVU and AP: Michelle Obama Honors Community Youth Programs: November 19, 2012
KQED: Michelle Obama to Honor Oakland Non-Profit with Youth Arts Award: November 19, 2012
Bay City News Service and Rockridge Patch: Michelle Obama to Bestow Award on Oakland-Based Youth Radio Program: November 18,2012
ABC 7-KGO: Oakland-based Youth Radio receives prestigious award: November 19, 2012
ABC 7-KGO: Oakland-based Youth Radio in DC to receive prestigious award: November 18, 2012
National Science Teachers Association: Teaching Students To Communicate Science: August 30, 2012
GOOD: Short Fuses: Do Some Sports Make Kids More Violent?: August 15, 2012
CBS San Francisco: Backyard Growers Using Forage App To Prevent Produce Waste: August 8, 2012
Oakland Tribune: Oakland's Youth Radio Uses Mobile App Forage City To Help Residents Share Food: August 5, 2012
Education Week: App Creation Inspires Student Entrepreneurs: June 13, 2012
SF Weekly: Ant-1 on Growing Up in the Local DJ Scene and Krazy Kids Radio: April 26. 2012
BoingBoing: DIY Balloon Camera Photos from 90,000 feet: March 21, 2012
Education Week: Students Create Apps to Help Communities: March 6, 2012
HASTAC: Reflections on Digital Literacy from Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab: January 4, 2012
Harvard Ed Review: Comic Book Rendition of Drop That Knowledge: January 2012
2011
Ella Baker Center Blog: Year in Review 2011: December 29, 2011
Digital Journal: Turnstyle News Makes Media That Matters To Gen Y: November 30, 2011
NAMM PLAYback: Youth Radio's NAMM Foundation Grant Presentation: Fall/Winter 2011
InOak End Year Mixer Awards Prizes to Pandora, Sungevity and Other Local Start-ups: November 1, 2011
National Civic Review: Youth Media Goes Mobile: October 24, 2011
New Learning Institute: New Media and Collaborative Learning at Youth Radio, Youth Radio's Lissa Soep Interviewed: September 27, 2011
Oakland North: Youth Radio launches new digital media workforce program: July 19, 2011
SF Gate "In Oakland Blog": Youth Radio launches new digital media workforce program: July 19, 2011
KGO Newstalk: Youth Radios' Digital Media Workforce Program: July 19, 2011
KQED Radio: Youth Radio Digital Media Training Begins: July 18, 2011
CBS San Francisco: Oakland's Youth Radio Launching Digital Media Program: July 18, 2011
"Crosscurrents" on KALW San Francisco: "All Day Play": the station that turns the tables on commercial music: July 13, 2011
Williamsport Sun Gazette: Alumnus of City's High Picks Up Journalism Honor: June 22, 2011
"Your Call" on KALW San Francisco: What Should Be Done About Human Sex Trafficking, Youth Radio's Denise Tejada Interviewed: June 9, 2011
The Bay Citizen: Culture Feed News Roundup: Youth Radio Wins Big: May 19, 2011
Oakland Local: Youth Radio Wins Peabody Award for investigative series Trafficked: May 19, 2011
Cinesource Magazine: Youth Radio Wins Peabody, Opens Web Channel: May 17, 2011
Science 360: Mobile Action Lab Trains Young People to Design, Develop and Market Apps: May 5, 2011
BoingBoing.net: Turnstyle: fresh writing from teens and young adults: January 24, 2011
2010
San Francisco Business Times: Nonprofit Profile, Jacinda Abcarian, Executive Director of Youth Radio: September 24, 2010
Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning: New Book Goes Behind the Scenes at Oakland's Youth Radio: September 24, 2010
Oakland North: Oakland's Youth Radio Celebrates Book Release: September 19, 2010
KQED Radio: Youth Radio's Elisabeth Soep and Belia Mayeno Saavedra Interviewed on Forum with Michael Krasny: September 16, 2010
East Bay Express: Youth Radio Beyond the Airwaves: September 15, 2010
Generation PRX: Spotlight On: Youth Radio's Lissa Soep, Co-Author of Drop That Knowledge: September 9, 2010
My Wonderful World Blog: Drop That Knowledge: Teaching and Learning from a Youth-Driven Newsroom: August 25, 2010
Wells Fargo Community Lending and Investment Overview: August 23, 2010
Michael Eric Dyson Show: Youth Radio's Dr. Elisabeth Soep Interviewed: August 11, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: Dr. Elisabeth Soep's new book Drop That Knowledge Released: Ben Fong-Torres Has the Story: July 25, 2010
Edutopia: Learning Inside an Out-of-School Newsroom: July 19, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: Youth Radio's Leon Sykes Article Published: "Awaiting Justice in Mehserle Sentence": July 12, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: Youth Radio in Ben Fong-Torres Article "Surprise: Kids Still Listening to the Radio": July 11, 2010
Radio Survivor: Youth Radio Coverage of Oscar Grant Trial: "Oscar Grant Radio on the Streets of Oakland": July 9, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: Youth Radio's King Anyi Howell Article Published: "Public Needs to Pay Attention to Mehserle Trial": June 15, 2010
Oakland Tribune: Youth Radio Honored: "Youth Radio Receives Award for Investigative Journalism": June 14, 2010
Investigative Reporting Workshop: "A New Model Catapults Youth Radio Into New Quarters": May 21, 2010
BoingBoing: Digital Literacy's New Moves: The View from a Youth Newsroom: April 23, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: Profile of Youth Radio: "Off the Streets, Onto the Air": February 21, 2010
Earlier Stories:
Mix Magazine Online: Youth Radio: High Tech for the Next Gen (October 1, 2008)
The Bay Area's broadcasters of tomorrow learn the ropes through cutting-edge after-school media education: Something truly transformative is happening in the lives of more than a thousand teenagers and young adults who live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Coming from mostly low-income households and ailing education systems, these young people are learning first-hand about the new world of converged media, thanks to a non-profit that offers free, hands-on classes and career training to high school students.
Radio World: The News Source for Radio Managers and Engineers: "A Chance to Find Yourself in Media" (September 10, 2008)
In 1991, Youth Radio was launched in Berkeley, Calif. Its goal was to give economically disadvantaged kids the chance to find a future in radio by giving them a free after-school education in broadcasting. Seventeen years later, Youth Radio is thriving. Though branching into video and the Web, the goal remains the same. Working out of its new broadcast facility in downtown Oakland, Youth Radio gives young people the chance to get their hands dirty in media, with an eye to building marketable skills.
