EPISODE · Dec 31, 2020 · 31 MIN
How a youth media network covered the election, a pandemic, and a racial reckoning
from Civic · host Laura Wenus, Liana Wilcox, Mel Baker
Newsrooms across the country have been in overdrive most of this year, covering a global pandemic, a primary and a presidential election, and protests against systemic racism and police brutality. Contributors with YR Media, a national network of young journalists and artists, have been covering it all with reporting and perspectives that don’t usually get the same space and attention in national or corporate outlets. CEO Kyra Kyles and contributing writer Erianna Jiles, a creative writing student at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, look back on 2020, what’s happened, and what still needs to happen.
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Newsrooms across the country have been in overdrive most of this year, covering a global pandemic, a primary and a presidential election, and protests against systemic racism and police brutality. Contributors with YR Media, a national network of young journalists and artists, have been covering it all with reporting and perspectives that don’t usually get the same space and attention in national or corporate outlets. CEO Kyra Kyles and contributing writer Erianna Jiles, a creative writing student at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, look back on 2020, what’s happened, and what still needs to happen.
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How a youth media network covered the election, a pandemic, and a racial reckoning
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