KQED
Youth Takeover
Started: 2018
- Currently active
- Created by our station
Station type: Joint license
Students have a lot to say, and KQED wants to share their voices with an audience beyond the classroom. Youth Takeover is a unique year-long program that partners with high school classrooms from Bay Area counties to help students produce audio feature stories destined for KQED’s broadcast, podcast and online programming, culminating in a week-long “takeover” of KQED’s programming annually in April. Students participate in workshops on pitch and script development, attend field trips to KQED’s headquarters where they train in audio soundscaping, record their original scripts in our studios, and attend career panel discussions with KQED staff.
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
Education
Identity, relationships
Journalism
Media literacy
Media making
Music, art
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
Production (TV/Radio)
Other
Partner organizations involved:
PRX Podcast Garage
Milpitas High School students came to KQED headquarters to record their pieces for Youth Takeover 2022. (Amanda Vigil / KQED)
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
Twitter
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
We partner with our *local school district(s)* to host programming
Contact time between youth participants and station staff:
11+ hours
Contact time between youth participants and partner orgs:
0 hours (partner staff do not interface with teens at all)