HarlemLive

HarlemLIVE is an after school program that is empowering teens to become informed consumers and producers of high quality new media. HarlemLIVE gives its students the hands on experience of producing a full-fledged student-run news website, along with the one-on-one mentoring partnerships with journalism professionals that teach the students everything from basic reporting and the use of new media, to news literacy and critical thinking skills. As students work in the field conducting interviews and covering events, they are engaging with the community and becoming learned to current affairs, both local and international. By providing students with a platform for disseminating content, HarlemLIVE is bolstering grassroots media, encouraging citizen media and helping to shape the next generation into agents of social change. Students are developing the technological skills to maneuver and participate within this evolving field, and are simultaneously gaining exposure to the business of media via our regular site visits to prominent networks.