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A girl on the football team?!
From: Y-Press
Series: Gender
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In the 40 years since Title IX was enacted girls’ participation in high school and college sports has risen over 900 percent. Y-Press radio produce...

Bought by WXDU and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2
Gender today, gender yesterday
From: Y-Press
Series: Gender
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Y-Press 17-year-old journalist Tommaso Verderame talks with several experts on contemporary gender issues.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
Transgender youth
From: Y-Press
Series: Gender
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A recent New York Times article suggested that 2010 might be known as the year of the transsexual. The story identified many gender-bending images ...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, KGNU Community Radio, and YouthCast


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 3
Introduction: youth and gender
From: Y-Press
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Gender roles don’t seem to have quite the pull they used to have. In 2008, the U.S. came close to having a woman in the Oval Office. Engineering sc...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
Digital natives
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and media
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According to Wikipedia a digital native "is a person who was born after the general implementation of digital technology, and, as a result, has a f...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
Generation M
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and media
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Flipping the channels, beep beep just received a text, while checking facebook is a very real scene for many teens. Some are calling these media mu...

Bought by KZYX, WTIP, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and YouthCast


  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 5
TV and the teen
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and media
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According to Nielsen the average American youth watches about 28 hours a week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year. Y-Press reporter 17 yea...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 12:28
Teens and internet
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and media
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For the second installment of series on youth and media, Y-Press reports on teens and internet use. According to the Pew Internet and American Life...

Bought by WTIP and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 2
Overview: teens and media
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and media
Caption: Hrishikesh Deshpande, 15
A recent Nielsen survey argues that understanding how teens use media is critical for economics, civic, cultural and social advancements. This week...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
Immigrant youth access to health care
From: Y-Press
Series: Youth and health care
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, both documented and undocumented immigrants disproportionately lack health coverage and receive fewer he...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
Paige Rawl: A peer sex educator
From: Y-Press
Series: Youth and health care
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According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in every four sexually active teenagers will contract a sexually transmitted disease. The Indiana...

  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:53
School-based health clinics
From: Y-Press
Series: Youth and health care
Caption: Willard Gambold Middle School
School-based health clinics are one healthcare solution for kids who are economically disadvantaged or uninsured. During the past several years Ind...

  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:42
Youth health care overview
From: Y-Press
Series: Youth and health care
Caption: Josier Boser, Chelsea Ratlift, Samantha Maltlen
Obesity, STDs, tobacco, drug and alcohol use are some of the major health concerns Indiana youth. And if kids need care in this difficult economy, ...

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Bondy Blog
From: Y-Press
Series: Paris Immigrants
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Last fall in a modest office in Bondy, a northeastern suburb of Paris, a group of young bloggers gathered for their weekly story meeting. They writ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
Immigrants
From: Y-Press
Series: Paris Immigrants
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Recently, French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that elite schools reserve space for youth from poorer backgrounds. Most of the schools reject...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: 03:18
Discrimination
From: Y-Press
Series: Paris Immigrants
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Before 15-year-old Y-Press journalist Joi Officer went to Paris, she though he life lives experiences would be extremely different to the youth she...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: 02:06
Affirmative Action
From: Y-Press
Series: Paris Immigrants
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The United States adopted affirmative action over 50 years ago to help promote equal opportunity and diversity. But support for it has been divide...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
"Gangs"
From: Y-Press
Series: Paris Immigrants
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According to a recent Reuter article, there are about 200 organized gangs in metropolitan Paris. Last year President Nicolas Sarkozy passed a law m...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: 03:33
Teen entrepreneurs
From: Y-Press
Series: Youth and the economy
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Fifteen-year-old Y-Press journalists Vincent Demyan, reports on the future for teen entrepreneurs.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 03:17
Are teens leaving the mall?
From: Y-Press
Series: Youth and the economy
Caption: Y-Press journalist Hrishi Deshpande
Fourteen-year-old Hrishi Deshpande, talks with fellow Y-Press journalists about how their spending has changed over the past year.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 01:42

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