KQED
Youth Advisory Board
Started: 2016
- Currently active
- Created by our station
Station type: Joint license
KQED’s Youth Advisory Board (YAB) convenes a diverse group of high school students from across the San Francisco Bay Area to provide feedback for KQED’s content and services and contribute their voices to our coverage. This includes working with them on potential topics for Above the Noise, polling them on ideas for increasing youth engagement, and testing social media marketing approaches. They also work on production teams to create content for Above the Noise, Forum, Arts & Culture and The California Report. Students also experience opportunities for practice in public speaking, collaboration and accountability to develop soft skills.
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
Identity, relationships
Journalism
Media literacy
Media making
Public media
Science, technology
Wellness, mental health
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Is this project considered part of the station's journalism work?
Yes
Departments involved:
Education
Newsroom
Media and/or educational content
Who is the primary audience of the content?
General audience adults
Who creates the media content?
T(w)eens and adults (in collaboration)
*General audience adults*
Who decides the topic areas of the content?
Both youth and adults (in collaboration)
Where is the content shared?
Broadcast radio
Website
Podcast
Instagram
Directly engaging tweens and teens in local programming
In this project...
T(w)eens are involved in station decision-making (e.g., youth advisory)
We host programming directly for t(w)eens
Contact time between youth participants and station staff:
11+ hours