Government funds young reporters to cover major events
By Joe Lepper Wednesday, 18 November 2009
A team of 26 young people have been recruited through a government-funded initiative to report on major events such as the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
The young reporters are aged between 13 and 19 and will be sent to write features on events that also include MTV's Play to Stop concert on 7 December that coincides with the UN conference.
Other events they will report on will be The Guardian's International Development Journalism Awards and the Vinspired awards, which include a performance by Tinchy Stryder.
The initiative, called Write Here, Right Now, is funded through the Department for International Development's UKaid fund and is run by Live Futures, which publishes Live Magazine.
Articles written by the team, who were recruited through a promotion in publications including Sugar, will appear on the website www.writehererightnow.org.
Live Futures will also try to syndicate the articles to national magazines and newspapers.
One of the reporters April Williamson, 17, from London, said: "I've always wanted to get involved with local and international issues such as climate change, but I've always found that my age has restricted me."
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