Youth Media Reporter is a journal that serves media professionals in the youth media field. YMR is a monthly, on-line professional publication (that is bound annually in print form), which strives to sustain and develop the youth media field by covering its topical issues, trends, and challenges. Youth media professionals, leaders, and practitioners are YMR’s audience, which is expanding.
YMR’s purpose is to build the youth media field by documenting, from multiple perspectives, the work produced by and for young people in video, film, television, radio, music, web, art, and print. YMR offers insight to the degree young people and their adult allies use media to make a difference, address a point, enhance creative imagination, and engage leadership.
YMR spotlights youth-made media locally, nationally, and internationally, providing the public perspectives from marginalized and at-risk youth voices. The publication offers media professionals a forum to share information, reflect on work done in the field, develop practice, ascertain new approaches and pedagogy, and celebrate youth led social change. Recognizing that many youth media practitioners come from a variety of fields, YMR includes all perspectives, viewpoints, and topics.
