GBH
Internet Expert
Started: 2020
- No longer active
- Created by our station
Station type: Joint license
Internet Expert is a head-to-head game show that challenges participants and viewers to sort fact from internet fiction on all things related to the 2020 election. Hosted by Malick Mercier, each episode presents two rival contestants with a series of online challenges about an election-related topic.
This project reaches tweens and teens via...
- Directly engaging t(w)eens via activities, events, or programs
- Media and/or educational content that is made by, with, or for t(w)eens
What topics does this project focus on?
Civic engagement
Media literacy
*
Is this project considered part of the station's journalism work?
Yes
Departments involved:
Newsroom
Partner organizations involved:
Poynter / Google News Initiative
Media and/or educational content
Who is the primary audience of the content?
T(w)eens
Who creates the media content?
Adults only (station employees, contractors, producers, etc)
*T(w)eens
Who decides the topic areas of the content?
Adults only
Where is the content shared?
YouTube
Directly engaging tweens and teens in local programming
In this project...
We host programming directly for t(w)eens
Contact time between youth participants and station staff:
1-2 hours
Contact time between youth participants and partner orgs:
0 hours (partner staff do not interface with teens at all)