European Youth Sets The Media Agenda

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European Youth SetsThe Media Agenda

• How European youth
• can make the difference!

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The concept

• By acting together, youth media in Europe - and
  worldwide - have the power to put their topics on
  the international media agenda.
• Established media can not ignore a topic widely
  covered by youth media all over Europe.

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Topic examples

• Hunger in the world (a millennium goal)
• Dictatorship in Europe (ex. Belarus)
• Censorship in media
• Loss of civil rights due to war on terror
• Separatism in Europe

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How it could work

• Every second months, all European youth media
  makers cover a specific topic
• The topic should concern youth and general
  interests and should be insufficiently covered by
  established media
• Every young paper, radioshow, blog, podcast etc.
  makes their own coverage
• The stories are collected online to show the
  given amount of attention

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We can do it!

• The network exists European Youth Press,
  national youth press organisations, social
  network youthmedia.eu, student press network
  Spine
• We use their newsletters and websites to spread
  the topic

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The outcome

• Youth becomes aware of the topic
• Established media are stimulated to write about
  the topic
• Civil society gets involved in discussion
• Intercultural discussion due to European wide
  coverage of topics
• Pressure of society grows