WBUR
WBUR Youth Takeover
Started: 2022
- Currently active
- Created by our station
Station type: Radio
WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station, is engaging with Greater Boston’s youth communities to develop and pilot the multiplatform WBUR Youth Takeover. Centered on an event series with a related broadcast component, the project is aimed at empowering high school and college-aged students through conversations and deep exploration of generational issues specific to today’s youth culture, as led by young people themselves.
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
Culture, society
Current affairs
Media making
Music, art
Wellness, mental health
*
Is this project considered part of the station's journalism work?
Yes
Departments involved:
Newsroom
Production (TV/Radio)
Engagement
Other
Media and/or educational content
Who is the primary audience of the content?
T(w)eens
Who creates the media content?
T(w)eens and adults (in collaboration)
*T(w)eens
Who decides the topic areas of the content?
Both youth and adults (in collaboration)
Where is the content shared?
Broadcast radio
Website
YouTube
Instagram
Other
*In-person events at WBUR CitySpace and virtual events via HopIn
Directly engaging tweens and teens in local programming
In this project...
We host programming directly for t(w)eens
We partner with *local organizations* to host programming
Contact time between youth participants and station staff:
3-10 hours