Seeking Media-Savvy Teens for Youth Public Media Fellowship

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center is thrilled to announce a new opportunity for media-savvy youth to get involved in shaping the public media landscape!

As part of our By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences project, we have recently opened applications to join a new Youth Fellowship program that will run from May 2 to August 31. All high schoolers between the ages of 14 to 18 in the U.S. are invited to apply! And did we mention that this is a paid opportunity? Students will receive a $500 stipend for their participation. We anticipate the commitment will be 1-2 hours a week over the next four months. Meetings will take place online.

Fellows will have a platform to influence public media stations around the country. We’re hoping that the group of Fellows will be diverse in many ways, and as individuals that they are:

  • “media savvy” — they think and engage deeply around news, media, new technologies, online life, etc.
  • comfortable collaborating with peers and with adults.
  • comfortable expressing their perspectives and listening to the perspectives of others.

If this sounds like a young person you know, please share this information with them.

The deadline to apply is April 15. 

Find the flier, FAQ, and the link to the application here.

 

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