Young reporters to promote global issues

The Department For International Development (DFID) has recruited Live Futures, the publisher of London's youth-run Live magazine, to generate interest in international issues.

The organisation is already mentoring a group of young reporters and training them to use film and editing equipment. The 16- to 24-year-olds will use video blogs, interviews, stories and mini-documentaries on the London summit website to communicate the event to their peers.

Michelle Clothier, co-founder of the Livity Group which Live Futures is part of, said: "We hope the project is the first step towards an active community of youth citizen journalists and content creators airing their views on global issues."

Interviews with Bob Geldof, foreign secretary David Miliband and managing director of the World Bank Ngozi Okonjo conducted by the young reporters at the DFID white paper conference earlier this month can be viewed at www.dfid.gov.uk/discoveryzone