{"id":358732,"date":"2010-02-24T13:48:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f93\/csun-professor-receives-50-000-media-collaborative-l-youth-39926\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T13:48:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:48:23","slug":"csun-professor-receives-50000-for-a-%c2%91media-collaborative%c2%92-for-l-a-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358732","title":{"rendered":"CSUN Professor Receives $50,000 for a \u0091Media Collaborative\u0092 for L.A. Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.24.10 08:46 AM<\/p>\n<p>Cal State Northridge assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/journalism\/\" >journalism<\/a> Linda Bowen has received a $50,000 grant from the McCormick Foundation to support the Youth Media Los Angeles Collaborative (YMLAC).<\/p>\n<p> The YMLAC is a citywide group of youth media organizations and individuals dedicated to training young people in producing journalism across multimedia platforms.<\/p>\n<p> \u0093We are excited and honored to receive this prestigious grant,\u0094 said Bowen, who accepted the award on behalf of the new collaborative, which is based at Youth News Service L.A. Bureau, the home the LA Youth newspaper for and about teens in the Los Angeles region.<\/p>\n<p> Initially, the collaborative will coordinate the various youth journalism and media programs and organizations throughout the greater Los Angeles region and create an online database of youth media and student journalism programs.<\/p>\n<p> \u0093The idea is to create a networking foundation and Web-based interactive resource that can bring these diverse groups and individuals together to help young people become and stay interested in journalism,\u0094 Bowen said. \u0093Fostering civic engagement and news media literacy are critical project components.\u0094<\/p>\n<p> Ultimately, the collaborative will connect youth media producers and young journalists to a broad network of mentors\u0097from university students, including some from CSUN, educators and professional journalists to non-profit agency trainers and members of advocacy and literacy organizations. Eventually, professionals and students could be geographically matched.<\/p>\n<p> \u0093McCormick-funded research shows that students who study journalism do better academically,\u0094 said Clark Bell, McCormick Foundation Journalism Program director. \u0093By fostering collaboration among student media organizations, we can expand the network of journalism opportunities for Los Angeles youth.\u0094<\/p>\n<p> The YMLAC is intended to serve as a model for organizations throughout the country seeking to improve the state of journalism by sharing resources, cultivating journalism skills and promoting First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/news\/2010\/02\/24\/media-collaborative\/\" >http:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/news\/2010\/02\/2&#8230;collaborative\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.24.10 08:46 AM Cal State Northridge assistant professor of journalism Linda Bowen has received a $50,000 grant from the McCormick Foundation to support the Youth Media Los Angeles Collaborative (YMLAC). The YMLAC is a citywide group of youth media organizations and individuals dedicated to training young people in producing journalism across multimedia platforms. \u0093We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}